Film: Wrestling With Angels
Wrestling With Angels is a feature-length documentary about playwright Tony Kushner, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Angels in America and the Oscar-nominated screenplay for Steven Spielberg's film Munich.
One of our greatest living playwrights, Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner Tony Kushner is a consummate artist and indomitable political activist committed to equality and social justice.
A Jewish homosexual raised in the heart of the Deep South, Kushner has become a compassionate voice for outsiders in a climate of repression and censorship.
Wrestling With Angels covers three years of Kushner's life from 9/11 to the 2004 presidential election, capturing the fierce moral responsibility that pervades this passionate artist's work. Perhaps the greatest compliment to Freida Lee Mock's film is that she does justice to her brilliant subject, entwining interviews with leading theatre artists and personal moments from Kushner's life with scenes from his plays, including Caroline, or Change (about the relationship between a Southern Jewish family and their African American amid); Homebody/Kabul (about the social and political chaos in Afghanistan before 9/11); and Brundibar (with Kushner's new lyrics for the opera performed by child inmates at the Nazi concentration camp Thereisenstadt and used in Nazi propaganda films).
Hear Tony Kushner speak at UMass Amherst when he delivers the 2007-08 Rand Lecture on Tuesday, October 9 at 7:00 pm.
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