{"id":9077,"date":"2014-11-24T11:37:15","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T15:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=9077"},"modified":"2014-11-24T11:37:15","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T15:37:15","slug":"tony-kushners-communist-turducken-i-watch-the-intelligent-homosexuals-guide-to-capitalism-and-socialism-with-a-key-to-the-scriptures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2014\/11\/tony-kushners-communist-turducken-i-watch-the-intelligent-homosexuals-guide-to-capitalism-and-socialism-with-a-key-to-the-scriptures.html","title":{"rendered":"“Tony Kushner’s Communist Turducken”: I watch “The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism With a Key to the Scriptures”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

for AmCon:<\/p>\n

My heart is by dejection, clay<\/em>
\nAnd by self-murder, red.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2013John Donne, \u201cA Litany\u201d<\/p>\n

Gus\u2019s heart is Red, all right. He\u2019s a 72-year-old Communist Party member, former longshoreman, and union organizer; he\u2019s already tried to kill himself once, and has called his children together to explain his new plan: Sell their Brooklyn brownstone, split the proceeds among the kids, then finish himself off. Tony Kushner\u2019s \u201cThe Intelligent Homosexual\u2019s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism With a Key to the Scriptures<\/a>,\u201d at D.C.\u2019s Jewish Community Center through December 21, is loosely structured around Gus\u2019s kids\u2019 attempts to argue their father (a broken yet indomitable Tom Wiggin) out of suicide.<\/p>\n

\u201cGuide\u201d is a soapy, overstuffed play. Kushner\u2019s plays are always intellectual turduckens. This one tries to wring insight and poignancy out of gay babymaking, apophatic theology vs. the social gospel, the housing crash, the Stalin-Hitler pact, the morality of suicide, commodity fetishism, the Shining Path, and the Guaranteed Annual Income\u2014plus musical bedrooms, a Yale-educated hustler, a mysterious locked suitcase, and a giant portrait of Our Lady of Sorrows. Some<\/em> of this works.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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