Homebody/Kabul
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Opened Apr 19, 2002
Closed Jun 23, 2002
Opened Apr 19, 2002
Closed Jun 23, 2002
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The Homebody, a bored, emotionally imprisoned but wildly intellectual English woman, finds refuge and escape in the alternate world of Afghanistan, which she romanticizes with the help of a tourist guidebook. Her mysterious disappearance in Afghanistan prompts an ensuing search by her husband and daughter who arrive in the foreign land unprepared for the adventures and contradictions that await them. In their quest for truth and closure, the lines between the real and the unreal, the political and the personal, the public and the private, the psychological and the sociological, are intentionally blurred and artfully ambiguous. With Homebody/Kabul, playwright Tony Kushner reaffirms his status as one of the most important and dynamic contemporary dramatists in the world.
There are no Saturday matinees on May 18 and June 1. There are additional Thursday matinees at 2pm on May 16 & 30.
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Now receiving its West Coast debut at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Tony Kushner's new play Homebody/Kabul has emerged as one of the first major theatrical works to address our post-September 11 reality. Kushner presciently began developing the piece back in 1997, when Americans thought of Afghanistan as just another distant, troubled country.
But while Homebody/Kabul is successful in presenting the miasma of interpenetrating forces operating in Afghanistan, it falls short of having a truly powerful impact. The three-and-a-half-hour play begins with a monologue by the "Homebody," an eccentric, discontent, middle-aged British woman deftly played by Michelle Morain. Speaking to the audienc[...]