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"Blurring the Lines of History"
Small Version | Medium Version | Large Version
By Tony Kushner
Directed by Lisa Channer
Set in a Berlin apartment in multiple eras, A Bright Room Called Day relates the concerns of Agnes Eggling, a middle-aged actress and Communist in pre-Nazi Berlin, to those of Zillah, a young woman frustrated with the governing parties of the early 1990's. Pulitzer-Prize winning playwright Tony Kushner examines two political parties’ rise to power in two different social and political climates. Kushner's exploration of human nature in the face of social change makes A Bright Room Called Day a challenging engagement in theatre.
April 17–25, 2009
- Opening Night Reception is Friday, April 17th
- Kushner in Context pre-show panel discussion will be held on Saturday, April 18th at 6:00pm in the Kilburn Arena Theatre. The discussion is free and open to the public.
- ASL/AD performance is Sunday, April 19th at 2:00pm
- Talk Back will follow the performance on Thursday, April 23rd
Performance Time: 3 hours
Concessions from the Birchwood Café will be available for purchase.
Rarig Center's Stoll Thrust Theatre
Rarig Center, 330 21st Ave S, West Bank, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
$15 general | $13 U of M faculty/staff/UMAA | $10 all students | All tickets $2 more at the door
Tickets: 612.624.2345 or click here!
Read about the U of M's Kushner events in Lavender Magazine's On the Townsend by John Townsend.
Check out the Minnesota Daily article about the show, Vergangenheitsbewältigung is a Bitter Fruit.
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Additional Kushner on Campus Events:
Both of these events are free and will be held in Rarig Center's Kilburn Arena Theatre
Slavs by Tony Kushner
Directed by Suzy Messerole
U of M/Guthrie Theater BFA Studio Series
April 23 at 7:30pm
April 25 at 7:30pm
April 26 at 2:00pm
Illusion by Tony Kushner
Directed by Bonnie Schock
U of M/Guthrie Theater BFA Studio Series
April 24 at 7:30pm
April 25 at 2:00pm
April 26 at 7:00pm
Kushner Events at the Guthrie Theater:
- Caroline, or Change - Guthrie Theater, April 18-June 21
- The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures - Guthrie Theater, May 9-June 28 (World Premiere)
- tiny KUSHNER: An Evening of Short Plays - Guthrie Theater, May 16-June 7
How does Tony Kushner build on the kinds of dramatic energies generated by playwrights such as Henrik Ibsen, George Bernard Shaw, Bertolt Brecht and Caryl Churchill? What does homosexuality have to do with socialism? Saturday Seminars are courses taught by four University of Minnesota professors to explore themes and questions raised by Kushner's work. Each 90-minute seminar varies in theme and format, and may be taken individually or packaged with other seminars.Seminars are offered on May 9, 16, 23 and June 6 in the Guthrie Learning Center on Level Eight. $35 per seminar. To purchase tickets or for more information click here.
The Guthrie is located at 818 South 2nd Street (at Chicago Avenue), in downtown Minneapolis. To purchase tickets or season subscriptions call the Guthrie Box Office between 10 a.m. and 8 p.m. daily at 612.377.2224 or toll-free 877.44.STAGE. For more information, or to purchase tickets online, visit www.guthrietheater.org.