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TERMINATING by TONY KUSHNER
Kushner is one of the world’s greatest playwrights, best known for his brilliant Angles in America, awarded with Tony Awards and Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Terminating – full of allusions to Shakespeare and psychoanalysis – is a twisted and hilarious reference to Sonet LXXV. Here, however, the separation is not that of two lovers but… a therapist and her patient. In the introduction, the author wrote: “I love the sonnets but I have always found that the love object remains rather generic throughout, and only the sonneteer, the lover, is illuminated, revealed”. That is why the therapist Esther, the love object (?) in Terminating, is not afraid to cry out that she in fact HAS PROBLEMS OF HER OWN.
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TRICK by CHRIS KRAUS
Chris Kraus is an American writer, art critic and filmmaker. She is best known for her semi-autobiographical novel I Love Dick. The book was first published in 1997 by Semiotext(e), but gained publicity only in the following decades. Today I Love Dick is considered a feminist classic. In the following story called Trick, Kraus talks about her experience of working in topless hustle bars in New York in the seventies and eighties. Trick is the first work of Kraus ever published in Polish.
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REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION by TONY KUSHNER
Reverse Transcription takes place in a cemetery on Martha’s Vineyard island. Six playwrights illegally bury the seventh – Ding who died of AIDS. The whole act – not uncommon for Kushner – is death-framed. This is a play rich with wit, erudition, and literary neurosis. Each of the six playwrights represents some sort of success or failure, masterpiece or mediocracy, bravado or fear. Because in the life – and death – of a playwright nothing is one-dimensional.
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