Kushner started writing his plays in the early 1980s in and with a group he founded himself for theatre. He writes his plays with the intent that they are part of a political movement. He addresses moral responsibility in times of repressed political issues. Addressing crowds that are open to change and progress is what Kushner enjoys most.

His first known play is La Fin de la Baleine: An Opera for the Apocalypse. That was written in 1982. A Bright Room Called Day was his first major play, which had its opening in 1985. It draws compares Germany in the 1930s to the United States in the 1980s. It was performed in various regional theatres across America. Kushner has written other plays as well, such as Slavs! (Thinking Avout the Longstandi

Tony Kushner can create comical and tragic characters that can bring even the most proud of people to back for more again and again. He knows how to manipulate a situation to make it entertaining in the most obscure ways. He fills the audience with laughter and the sadness in just a few moments of a play's start.

1) Internet: www.oxy.edu/departments/cpr/new/events/speakers/kushner.htm

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