Angels in Afghanistan
A controversial, uneven, and eerily timely production at the Berkeley Rep
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Through June 23
Tickets are $42-54
(510) 647-2949
www.berkeleyrep.org
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Kushner wants to fuse George Bernard Shaw's polemical-epic style with the personal drama of Tennessee Williams or Chekhov, but the experiment falls apart, like Angels, because his characters are so thin. (By Angels I mean both parts, including Perestroika.) He still hasn't found a way to fuse his politics onto real people without distorting the people. There are signs of growth, however -- at least none of the characters here is a malicious cartoon, like the Mormons in Angels. Last week on the radio Kushner admitted to drag queen envy, to feeling like a nerd when he'd rather be fabulous, and the same tension exists in Homebody/Kabul: He wants to make up for his pedanticism by spinning a fabulous, world-consuming epic. Sometimes, in fits, he succeeds.
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