The Illusion (play)

This article is about the Tony Kushner play. For the Animorphs book, see The Illusion (Animorphs). For the band, see The Illusion (band).

The Illusion is a play by Tony Kushner, adapted from Pierre Corneille's seventeenth-century comedy, L'Illusion Comique. It follows a contrite father, Pridamant, seeking news of his prodigal son from the sorcerer Alcandre. The magician conjures three episodes from the young man's life. Inexplicably, each scene finds the boy in a slightly different world where names change and allegiances shift. Pridamant watches, but only as the strange tale reaches its conclusion does he learn the ultimate truth about his son.

The Illusion has a lighter mood than Kushner's most famous play, Angels in America, but the two plays share a love of poetic dialogue and theatricality.

Publication

The Illusion is published by Broadway Play Publishing Inc. in the collection Plays By Tony Kushner as well as in an acting edition.

Further reading

Wolfe, Graham. “Tony Kushner’s The Illusion and Comedy’s ‘Traversal of the Fantasy’.” Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism 26.1 (2011): 45–64.

External links

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