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"Tiny Kushner" overwhelms at Berkeley Rep Premier
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"Tiny Kushner" premier at Berkeley Rep was met with cheers after a long and deep silence, one that was in response to Tony Kushner once again giving his Audience more than spectacular acting in the 5 "tiny" one act plays of Kushner. The Director, Tony Taccone, sat right in front of us, and was pleased by the humor and enjoyment the characters of each offering elicited. In each, the identity, key to Kushner's work in Angels in America and Homebody Kabul, makes flesh and blood characters who give us the means to feel and comprehend the means by which we come to understand ourselves and each other in the issues of our times. The moral compass for which Kushner is known is passed on to us as we come to know and experience the dilemmas and heartbreak of the characters. It seems necessary to comprehend the characters in the plays, in order for our hearts and minds to take hold of whatever responsibility we can grasp for this world.
That would account for the last play's impact on the audience who sat with rapt attention as Laura Bush met the Iraqi children impacted by a war that continues. A stunned silence as the lights went down, then an enthusiastic display of appreciation by the Audience with a few people standing to applause while others gathered themselves from the experience the play evoked.
As we left the theater, the woman in front of me said into the silence as we moved toward the exit "They should have had the last play first." Seemed like had they done that, the laughter and good fun in the satire and wit of the four proceeding plays might have been muted. But what really seemed true was there is no "tiny" Kushner; his work is global and contains all of the potential of human experience and reminds us each of our causal role in how the world is.
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