(Michael Billington’s article appeared in the Guardian, 9/6.)
Tony Kushner is still best known for his epic fantasia Angels in America. But, even in these five short plays imported from the Guthrie Theatre and Berkeley Rep, he reveals his gift for blending the hallucinatory and the political. And, even though the works are variable in quality, collectively they confirm one character's credo that "ambivalence expands our options".
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