Death & Taxes: Hydriotaphia & Other Plays

by Tony Kushner

Book Overview

"This is an odd assemblage of plays, for which gathering-together there is no overarching thematic justification. Because several of the plays deal with death, and one of the death-plays deals as well with money, and the last play deals with taxation, we're calling the book Death & Taxes. But all plays, directly or indirectly, are about death and taxes, so this title explains little..." -Tony Kushner
This stunning new collection by Tony Kushner,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1559361565
• ISBN13: 9781559361569
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Brilliant, Verbal, Political, Emotional

Tony Kushner's plays are an orgy of language and ideas. The plays in this volume are his funniest, and show his classic style of using boiling down plolitical and social themes to get at the desires of the human heart.