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The Intelligent Homosexual Wiki Information
| The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures
is a 2009 play by American playwright Tony Kushner. The world premiere was directed by Michael Greif at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, opening on May 15, 2009 in previews and running through June 28. The title was inspired by George Bernard Shaw's The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism
and Mary Baker Eddy's Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
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Plot
The play looks at the life of a 20th-century thinker, retired longshoreman Gus Marcantonio, who's feeling confused and defeated by the 21st century. In summer 2007, his sister, who has been staying with him for a year, invites Gus' three children (who in turn bring along spouses, ex-spouses, lovers and more) to a most unusual family reunion in their Brooklyn brownstone. [
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Original Cast
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]- Mark Benninghofen as Adam Butler
- Kathleen Chalfant as Benedicta Immacolata Marcantonio (Bennie)
- Sun Mee Chomet as Sooze Moon Marcantonio
- Michael Cristofer as Augusto Giuseppe Garibaldi Marcantonio (Gus)
- Linda Emond as Maria Teresa Marcantonio (Empty)
- Michael Esper as Eli Wolcott
- Charity Jones as Maeve Ludens
- Ron Menzel as Vito Marcantonio (V, Vic, Vinnie)
- Michelle O'Neill as Shelle O'Neill
- Michael Potts as Paul Pierce
- Stephen Spinella as Pier Luigi Marcantonio (Pill)
Early Reception
According to an article in the St. Paul Pioneer Press
, only local critics were encouraged to review the play. National critics like Ben Brantley of The New York Times
, who was originally invited to review the play, were asked to wait for a future production. [3] The reviews that have been published have been somewhat mixed, acknowledging that the play is in early stages, while praising many of its positive moments. The Star Tribune
ran a review stating "The lines sound great in the actors' mouths, their performances are excellent and Greif dances this show across the Guthrie stage with humor and muscular strokes. It is a very American work - a dense rush of ideas." While going on to observe that the "operatic cacophony at times skates precipitously close to the razor's edge of incoherence."[
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References
- Listingguthrietheater.org, accessed ay 31, 2009
- Gans, Andrew."Kushner's The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide Begins Guthrie Run May 15",playbill.com, May 15, 2009
- Papatola, Dominic."Kushner to critics: Please don't review my new play; Critics to Guthrie: Thanks for mishandling this",twincities.com, May 29, 2009
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