The Tricycle Theatre will present the British Premiere of The Guthrie Theater/Berkeley Repertory Theatre production of Tiny Kushner, a collection of five one-act plays written by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Tony Kushner, directed by Berkeley Repertory Theatre's Artistic Director Tony Taccone. Tiny Kushner will preview from 1 September, with press night on 3 September and runs until 25 September 2010. Designs are by Annie Smart, with lighting by Alexander V. Nichols and sound by Victor Zupanc. The all American cast, who perform multiple roles throughout the season, are J.C Cutler, Kate Eifrig, Jim Lichtscheidl and Valeri Mudek. Originally commissioned by Joe Dowling, Artistic Director of the Guthrie Theatre, Tiny Kushner comprises the following plays:
Dr. Arnold A. Hutschnecker in Paradise
Only We Who Guard The Mystery Shall Be Unhappy
Flip Flop Fly!
A bizarre lunar encounter between two dead women, Lucia Pamela - the fabulous American concert pianist, singer, songwriter, recording star, bandleader and radio personality, who claimed to have made a record album on the moon in1969 - and Geraldine, the deposed queen of Albania. With one nattering on about her life in entertainment and the other about her life in exile, the two compare the courses of their lives.Terminating or Sonnet LXXV or "Lass Meine Schmerzen Nicht Verloren Sein" or Ambivalence
Sitting in an office are Esther, an analyst, and her former patient, Hendryk, along with their lovers, Dymphna and Billygoat , respectively, as Hendryk, pleads with Esther to take him back as a patient.
East Coast Ode to Howard Jarvis: a little teleplay in tiny monologues
An outrageous 1990s scheme actually used to avoid paying taxes. As a housing detective discovers its success, news of the fraud spreads rapidly, prompting the government to investigate.
Dr. Arnold A. Hutschnecker in Paradise
Metatron , a Recording Angel with a million eyes, is holding a supervisory session with Dr. Hutschneker in an upscale office in heaven. The two discuss how Hutschneker's pains and his denial of mortality could quite possibly be related to his sessions with his own patient, Richard Milhous Nixon, with whom he frequently meets in the afterlife.
Only We Who Guard The Mystery Shall Be Unhappy
Now-former First Lady Laura Bush reads from The Brothers Karamazov to the pyjama-clad ghosts of dead Iraqi children, all of whom are watched over by an angel.
Tony Kushner is one of America's most prolific playwrights and the winner of awards including the Pulitzer Prize, two Tony Awards, three Obie Awards, an Emmy Award, a Laurence Olivier Award, two Evening Standard Awards and a Golden Globe. His plays include Angels in America, A Bright Room Called Day, Homebody/Kabul, Hydriotaphia, The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures, and Slavs! He also wrote the book and lyrics for Caroline, or Change, a musical composed by Jeanine Tesori. Kushner has translated and adapted the libretto for the children's opera Brundibar by Hans Krása, The Dybbuk by S.Y. Ansky, The Illusion by Pierre Corneille and two scripts by Bertolt Brecht: The Good Person of Sezuan and Mother Courage and her Children. He wrote screenplays for Angels in America, directed by Mike Nichols, and Munich, directed by Steven Spielberg. Kushner's books include Brundibar, The Art of Maurice Sendak: 1980 to the Present and Wrestling With Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, co-edited with Alisa Solomon. He is also the subject of Wrestling with Angels, a documentary made by Oscar-winning filmmaker Freida Lee Mock.
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Jim Lichtscheidl, J.C Cutler, Kate Eifrig, Valeri Mudek
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