FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Monday,
August 03, 2009
Presentation College Social Work
Program in cooperation with POV, the award-winning non-fiction film series from
PBS, presents Wrestling with Angels:
Playwright Tony Kushner. The film
will be shown on Wednesday, Aug. 12, at 8 pm (following open mic night), at the
Red Rooster Coffee House in Aberdeen. Discussion
will follow the film, and it is free to the public. Learn more about the film and watch the
trailer at: http://www.pbs.org/pov/lifesupportmusic/
Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner
Tony Kushner, whose epochal Angels in America
won a Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award, has emerged as one of the country's
leading playwrights — and one of its fiercest moral critics. In the new
award-winning film Wrestling With Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner,
Oscar-winning director Freida Lee Mock (Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision, P.O.V. 1996) followed Kushner
for three tumultuous years, from Sept. 11, 2001 to the 2004 presidential
election, to delve into the passions that keep him reaching for the great
American play. Actors Marcia Gay Harden, Meryl Streep, Tonya Pinkins and Emma
Thompson, directors Mike Nichols and George C. Wolf, and writer/artist Maurice
Sendak are seen collaborating with Kushner on such landmark works as Angels
in America; Caroline, or Change; and Homebody/Kabul.
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