Homebody/Kabul
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened May 11, 2004
Closed May 30, 2004
Opened May 11, 2004
Closed May 30, 2004
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Running Time:
3hr. 30min.
3hr. 30min.
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Tony Kushner's uncannily prescient Homebody/Kabul, was completed just prior to September 11, 2001. Set in 1998, the play revolves around the possibly horrific ramifications of a solitary British housewife's infatuation with Afghanistan. Her source of inspiration: an out-of-date travel guide. It's from her introspective and highly articulate musings that Kushner launches his epic.
Kushner has retooled his original text, and this latest rendition, developed at two of America's most renowned theater companies, Steppenwolf in Chicago and Los Angeles' Center Theatre Group / Mark Taper Forum -- under the stage direction of Tony Award-winner Frank Galati -- emphasizes the play's engrossing plot.
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Tony Kushner will tell you that the version of Homebody/Kabul now at BAM is the play's 17th draft. The statistic won't take by surprise anyone who knows Kushner's obsession with rewriting. John Guare, aware of Kushner's efforts on this project, quoted to him Paul Valery's remark about works of art never being finished, only abandoned. Guare, who doesn't rewrite much, believes that Kushner should move on -- which he's always doing, of course, since he seems unhappy unless juggling multiple projects at any given time.
As someone who's only seen two drafts produced, I'm not certain I want to tell Kushner to knock it off. I believe in Kushner's genius enough to think he might eventually get [...]