Os demônios na América de Tony Kushner: G. David Schine in Hell (1996)

Authors

  • Vanessa Cianconi UERJ

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22409/w9e7as49

Abstract

  1. David Schine in Hell is a short one-act play by American playwright Tony Kushner. Originally published in The New York Times Magazine in 1996 as “A Backstage Pass to Hell” and republished in Death & Taxes: Hydriotaphia & Other Plays (2000), G. David Schine revisits the ghostly characters from Angels in America (1991) while introducing many others who, together with Roy Cohn, helped terrorize American politics in the 1950s and beyond. The scene takes place in Hell on a single day, June 19, 1996, the day Schine died. There, hard-hitting characters from American politics, dressed in drag, talk about love, politics as they try to find out whether they belong in hell. While questioning the existence of a limbo, Schine remains lost about his fate and what he is doing there. Like Angels, “G. David Schine in Hell” is a fantasy on American themes which, by exploring the demonic spectropolitics of that country's politics, advocates the possibility of a future that would lead to the election of Donald Trump to the presidency in 2025.

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Published

2025-10-14

Issue

Vol. 36 No. 70 (2025): Open science and new language technologies: translation, subtitles and digital archives

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Cad. Let. n.70 - Varia

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Os demônios na América de Tony Kushner: G. David Schine in Hell (1996). Caderno de Letras da UFF, Brasil, v. 36, n. 70, p. 231–254, 2025. DOI: 10.22409/w9e7as49. Disponível em: https://periodicos.uff.br/cadernosdeletras/article/view/67288. Acesso em: 5 dec. 2025.