Tony Kushner

Traducción Carla Matteini; Dramaturgia y dirección Mario Gas. Contiene ilustraciones. Acompaña DVD. Kushner teje una red de personajes y conflictos a los que aplica su particular bisturí para diseccionar con ironia, lucidez, dolor y comprension toda una serie de situaciones colectivas e individuales que no son otra cosa que resonancias aceradas del mundo que nos rodea y de nuestra posicion como individuos pertenecientes al acomodado 'primer mundo'.

About this title: Maurice Sendak ranks as one of the best known and loved children''s book artists in the USA, and has been awarded both the Hans Christian Andersen Medal and the Caldecott Medal. This volume picks up where Selma Lanes'' monograph of his work "The Art of Maurice Sendak", published in 1980, leaves off, tracing Sendak''s life and work from 1980 to 2003. An extended essay by playwright Tony Kushner, a long-time friend of Sendak''s provides an intimate view of the artist. Kushner not only gives a chronological overview of Sendak''s work, but also allows us to see him as an accomplished author and artist redefining his legacy, and as a man coming to terms with himself.

'Kushner's first big work on a great big canvas since Angels in America. This eerily timely work about Afghanistan is comparably mesmerising and mournful, vast and intimate, emotionally generous and stylistically fabulist, wildly verbal, politically progressive and scarily well informed' Newsday. 'What a feast of a play! No playwright in the English language has a more consuming curiosity or a greater passion for language than Kushner... Brilliant' Chicago Tribune.

First performed in Britain at the National Theatre in January 1992, this play is written from a gay perspective and with an AIDS theme. The author is the award-winning writer of "A Bright Room Called