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Review: Guthrie's bite-sized collection of five Kushner plays, 'Tiny Kushner,' is a sampling worth savoring
by Dominic Papatola, Pioneer Press
Oh, the things that are racing around in Tony Kushner's head: Eccentric musicians and deposed Albanian royalty. Nixon's shrink and thousand-eyed therapeutic machines. White supremacists and corrections officers. And, of course, Rudy Giuliani, Bill Clinton and Laura Bush.
Sprinkle in references to Shakespeare, the Bible and Dostoevsky and there's too much - too, too, too much - there for one play. Happily, the Guthrie and the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright have sliced and diced his anger, his polemics and his sense of humor into a bite-sized collection under the title "Tiny Kushner: An Evening of Short Plays."
A full accounting of each of the five plays isn't possible in a newspaper-length review, but here's what you need to know: The night is a roller-coaster ride through the playwright's imagination and an ode to his facility with style, tone and language. Dense with images and ideas, historical facts and tidbits, the overall vibe it creates is a cross between a graduate-school seminar and an undergrad drinking game.