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THEATER

'Homebody/Kabul': Overtaken by History

By JULIA M. KLEIN

Tony Kushner, much like a latter-day Arthur Miller, seeks to illuminate the dark crossroads where the personal and the political intersect. That can be a dicey enterprise, a gamble with both history and culture. The stakes are especially high in the case of his sprawling new three-act play, Homebody/Kabul, a disquisition on Afghanistan and otherness, and Kushner's...

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