Wednesday, August 04, 2004

Tony Kushner's new work

From Salon:
Written in the days leading up to the March 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, the unfinished "Only We Who Guard the Mystery ..." had already garnered a lot of attention. Its premise is that literacy-enthusiast Laura has come to read to three dead Iraqi schoolchildren

An increasingly discomfited Laura Bush tells the bodiless kids,
"It isn't right that you should have had to die because your country is run by an evil man who is accumulating weapons of mass destruction. But he is, you see, he really is ... So it was um, necessary for you to die, sweetie, how awful to say that, but it was, precious."

Great story, and some funny stuff in the second act.

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

<< Home