Wrestling With Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner previously at Film Forum in New York City

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	Q&A with Tony Kushner and Filmmaker Freida Lee Mock! Friday, October 6, at 6pm Q&A with Filmmaker Freida Lee Mock! Saturday, October 7, at 8pm
	“An entertaining, intimate personal profile! (Kushner) has a gift for being very funny and serious at the same time.” – Stephen Holden, The New York Times “Freida Lee Mock’s gentle, slightly love-struck documentary about Tony Kushner, the defining playwright of our age, shows us…how completely one can interface political and artistic engagement. Kushner can do the impossible with words.” – Helen Shaw, Time Out NY “Energetic and engrossing!” – Eric Grode, The New York Sun “Kushner is so charming that it would be easy to overlook the degree to which his plays are about things that matter. With his brains, passion and optimism, he’s quite a package.” – Jay Carr, amNY “Tony Kushner is the loquacious, immensely articulate, witty subject. An essay in charisma.” – Hollywood Reporter "Mock’s vigorous and peripatetic study of the brashly leftist writer has something to lift the hearts of intelligence-starved theatergoers, demoralized progressives and dispirited gay Mormons alike. Deftly interweaves a wealth of performance footage.” – Jan Stuart, Newsday (reporting from the Sundance Festival)
Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning playwright Tony Kushner (Angels in America; Caroline, or Change; Homebody/Kabul; co-writer, MUNICH) is one of America’s most prodigiously talented and politically engaged artists. In this entertaining portrait from Academy Award-winning director Freida Lee Mock (MAYA LIN: A STRONG CLEAR VISION), Kushner takes us on a trip through his life and times, from his Jewish boyhood in small-town Louisiana to his development as a writer, politically active gay man, and endlessly quotable globe-trotting force for a more literate and compassionate universe. Mock follows the now-50-year-old writer from just after 9/11 to the 2004 presidential election, capturing the fierce moral responsibility that pervades his work as well as the unique dynamics of his creative process. We go behind the scenes of early rehearsals and performances of his musical Caroline, or Change and the children’s Holocaust opera Brundibar; visit with Mike Nichols on the set of HBO’s Angels in America; and make a trip to Kushner’s hometown. Writing from the Sundance Festival, David Ansen (Newsweek) praises Kushner’s “humor, ambition, vision and dazzling braininess.” With Maurice Sendak, Marcia Gay Harden, Meryl Streep, Tonya Pinkins, George C. Wolfe, Oskar Eustis, Frank Rich and others.. USA • 2006 • 98 minutes • Balcony Releasing LINKS: OFFICIAL WEBSITE FOR THE FILM Q&A with Tony Kushner and WRESTLING WITH ANGELS Filmmaker Freida Lee Mock! (Recorded October 4 & 6, 2006) Available at Amazon:

The Theater of Tony Kushner
(Studies in Modern Drama)

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