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HOMEBODY/KABUL (2003/2004)

"'Our story begins at the very dawn of history, circa 3,000 B.C...' I am reading from an outdated guidebook about the city of Kabul. In Afghanistan. In the valleys of the Hindu Kush Mountains. A guidebook to a city which as we all know, has...undergone change."

-The opening of Homebody/Kabul

It’s said that timing is everything. It certainly holds true for Tony Kushner’s uncannily prescient Homebody/Kabul, completed just prior to September 11, 2001. As with his momentous Pulitzer Prize-winning Angels in America, Kushner has created a work at once hypnotic, intensely personal, emotionally and stylistically expansive, politically astute, and wildly inventive.

Set in Kabul, this play examines current day Afghanistan, its history, its long tortured relationship with the West and its current political and humantarian crisis. The play centers around the disappearance of an eccentric British woman (the Homebody) and the search for her by her husband and daughter (Maggie Gyllenhaal). In their quest for the truth and closure, the lines between real and unreal, the political and the personal are intentionally blurred and are fully ambiguous.

Dates September 21st to November 9th 2003
Venue: Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles
Running Time: 4 hours with two intermissions.
Starring: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Linda Emond, Maz Jobrani, Aasif Mandvi, Reed Birney, Bill Camp, Rahul Gupta, Firdous Bamji, Dariush Kashani, Rita Wolf
Written by: Tony Kushner
Directed by: Frank Galati

Dates: May 11th to 30th 2004
Venue: Brooklyn Academy of Music Theatre in Brooklyn
Running Time: 3 hours and 30 minutes with two intermissions.
Starring: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Firdous Bamji, Reed Birney, Bill Camp, Linda Emond, Rahul Gupta, Dariush Kashani, Aasif Mandavi, Ali Reza , Rita Wolf
Written by: Tony Kushner
Directed by: Frank Galati

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• Maggie's Reviews:

"Let it be said, loudly and happily, that Maggie Gyllenhaal, a rising film star in her New York theatrical debut, turns out to be made for the stage, with a throaty, emotion-bending voice and a natural luminosity that makes spotlights unnecessary.” — The New York Times
"The gifted Maggie Gyllenhaal manages to make the obnoxious Priscilla almost likable in a performance that has a few low and many high points" - New York Metro

• Maggie Says:

“It was so very clear from the beginning, that this would be my first priority no matter what happened. I feel like I have a very specific clear connection to this character. I don't know where exactly that comes from. It's something I'm t rying to figure out." -- From LA Daily News - September 30th 2003

• Web Links

Brooklyn Academy of Music - Official website
Mark Taper Forum - Official website
CurtainUp.com - New York review
Go-Brooklyn.com - New York review
The Artist Network - New York review / Tony Kushner article
Theater Mania - New York review
New York Metro - New York review
CurtainUp.com - Los Angeles review
TalkinBroadway.com - Los Angeles review
Playbill - Gyllenhaal Joins Homebody/Kabul
Google.com - Search "Homebody/Kabul"+"Maggie Gyllenhaal"

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