5/29/2023 0 Comments Angels in america part oneIt is 1985, Prior Walter is HIV positive, his Jewish boyfriend leaves him for a straight Mormon, and then he gets a hospital visit from an angel who says it is up to him to save humanity. Part One could be one of those great New York Jewish jokes. Exactly what are the forces that drive the manic history of this new millennium? What does it mean to live in a free society? What might it mean to live in a good society?Įamon Flack ( As You Like It, Babyteeth) directed a stellar cast in the newest classic in the canon. Now, a generation after Tony Kushner’s masterpiece first appeared, a black President who supports gay marriage recently defeated a Mormon Republican for the White House, and Angels in America is the perfect guide to the essential questions of our times. Millennium Approaches and Perestroika were the closing statements of last century – an epic double-comedy of love and hate, heaven and earth, past and future. Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes is not one play but two.
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