From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angels in America comes this powerful portrayal of individual dissolution and resolution in the face of political catastrophe. -Anthony Adler, The Reader.
More than a diatribe against Reagan or a falling-into-the-Nazi-abyss history play, A Bright Room Called DAY is an assertion of the need for commitment.
And most important, always passionately committed.
Always dramatically and intellectually forceful.
Wild, uneven, pugnacious, ragged, committed, smart, dumb, satirical, and utterly serious ...
This passionate and ready to talk. -Sid Smith, Chicago Tribune It\'s fun to see a show this engaged.
In its 1932-33 span, it tells of a group of Berlin artists and friends, with varying degrees of communist leanings, and of the changes in their lives as democracy falls and Adolph Hitler takes over.
It\'s brash, audacious, and, depending on your politics, anything from infuriatingly na ve to intoxicatingly visionary. an examination of Nazi Germany in an attempt to shed insight on our own time.
Bright Room is ... is unabashedly political, thought-provoking, a little scary, and frequently a good deal of theatrical fun ...
Tony Kushner\'s A Bright Room Called DAY ...
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angels in America comes this powerful portrayal of individual dissolution and resolution in the face of political catastrophe