“iHo is a vast, rich work of public-intellectual engagement. . . The values built into this beautifully inquiring play operate outside of common dramatic economies. Kushner’s carefully organized labor of love is a spur to the active mind.”—Adam Feldman, Time Out New York
Gus Marcantonio, a retired longshoreman, summons his adult children home to the family’s Brooklyn brownstone to discuss his recent decision to commit suicide. With his trademark mix of soaring intellect, searing emotion, and biting wit, Kushner unfurls an epic tale of revolution, radicalism, family, love, sex, politics, real estate, unions, and debts both unpaid and unpayable.
“Thrillingly ambitious . . . I walked into New York’s Public Theater . . . genuinely excited to find out what was on the author’s mind and left with enough food for thought to last a theatrical winter.”—Charles McNulty, Culture Monster, Los Angeles Times
“At a time when citizens feel trapped in the eternal present of the twenty-four-hour news cycle, iHo’s big argumentative poetry screams out that history matters.”—Margaret Spillane, Nation
“A humane, impassioned play . . . vast in length, argument and scope. It is attractively ambitious, grappling with deep socio-political change and loss of direction: a huge, generous and meaty state-of-the-nation work wrapped in a family drama.”—Sarah Hemming, Financial Times
