Event Title
A Conversation with Tony Kushner
Start Date
22-3-2013 8:00 PM
End Date
22-3-2013 9:00 PM
Description
Only audio is available online.
This recording from the Friday, March 22nd, 2013, during the 44th Annual UND Writers Conference, “A Portrait of an Artist,” Tony Kushner discusses his work as a playwright. Topics for discussion include: Tony Kushner's formula/signature in writing plays, the benefits of stage, how modern movies have changed plays, history in his plays, audience for his plays and maintaining their interest, plays as historical documents, the educational value of plays, the essence of plays as texts, his screenplay for Lincoln, Angels in America, homosexuality and heterosexuality, and the gap between writer and reader. After the discussion, Tony Kushner answers questions from the audience. Topics for questions include: the difficulty in remaining factual when writing Lincoln, the ending of Lincoln, and choosing actors for various roles.
Introduction by President Robert O. Kelley.
Conversation is moderated by Jack Russell Weinstein.
A Conversation with Tony Kushner
Only audio is available online.
This recording from the Friday, March 22nd, 2013, during the 44th Annual UND Writers Conference, “A Portrait of an Artist,” Tony Kushner discusses his work as a playwright. Topics for discussion include: Tony Kushner's formula/signature in writing plays, the benefits of stage, how modern movies have changed plays, history in his plays, audience for his plays and maintaining their interest, plays as historical documents, the educational value of plays, the essence of plays as texts, his screenplay for Lincoln, Angels in America, homosexuality and heterosexuality, and the gap between writer and reader. After the discussion, Tony Kushner answers questions from the audience. Topics for questions include: the difficulty in remaining factual when writing Lincoln, the ending of Lincoln, and choosing actors for various roles.
Introduction by President Robert O. Kelley.
Conversation is moderated by Jack Russell Weinstein.
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