HOMEBODY/KABUL

Theatre@RiskVIC

22 Feb 2007 – 11 Mar 2007

7.30pm – 11pm

Performance Dates

22 Feb 2007 – 11 Mar 2007

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Details

Playwright: Tony Kushner
Director: Chris Bendall

AddressTrades Hall Arts, cnr of Victoria & Lygon Sts, Melbourne

Theatre @ Risk presents
HOMEBODY/KABUL by Tony Kushner
from the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Angels in America

“The most remarkable play in a decade. Without a doubt the most important of our time." New York Observer

Previews 22 and 23 Feb
Season 24 Feb-11 Mar
Tues–Sat 7.30pm, Sun 5pm

$28 adults/$23 seniors and MEAA/$19 students, under 25 and unwaged
Preview and Tight Tuesdays $16

New Ballroom, Trades Hall Arts, cnr of Victoria & Lygon Sts, Melbourne

An eccentric British tourist arrives in Kabul in 1999 and disappears in mysterious circumstances. As her husband and daughter search for her, or at least for her body, the lines between East and West, justice and injustice, fact and fiction blur irrevocably.

In Homebody/Kabul, internationally acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner has turned his penetrating gaze to the arena of global politics to create this suspenseful portrait of a dangerous collision between cultures. Written before 9/11, this play premiered in New York in December 2001 and has had subsequent highly successful productions across the UK and the US.

Homebody/Kabul takes us on a compelling and epic journey into a world at odds with itself. It is a work of genius, rich with gripping language, mystique and cultural chaos.

Tony Kushner is best known for Angels in America, chosen by London’s National Theatre as one of the 10 best plays of the 20th century. His other plays include A Bright Room Called Day, Slavs!: Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness and Widows with Ariel Dorfman. He has also written the screenplay for Steven Spielberg’s latest film Munich.

"A fusion of politics, poetry and boundless empathy transformed into passionate, juicy theatre." New York Times

Director: Chris Bendall
Designer: Peter Corrigan
Original music and sound design: Kelly Ryall
Lighting design: Nick Merrylees
Producer: Kirrilly Brentnall
With: Heather Bolton, Ernie Gray, Anastasia Malinoff and Rob Meldrum

Contact
Booking phone: 03 9639 0096
Booking website: http://www.theatreatrisk.com

Bookings

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