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20. Juli 2017 · With Andrew Garfield, Russell Tovey, Denise Gough, Nathan Lane. The National Theatre's live theatrical production of Tony Kushner's play 'Angels in America' about New Yorkers grappling with the AIDS crisis during the mid-1980s.
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- Drama
- Marianne Elliott, Bridget Caldwell
- 2017-07-20
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- Analysis
The play opens with Rabbi Isador Chemelwitz alone onstage with a small wooden coffin. He is preaching the funeral of Sarah Ironson, the grandmother of a large, assimilated Jewish family. Rabbi Chemelwitz admits he did not know Sarah, whose later years in the Bronx Home for Aged Hebrews were sad and quiet, but that he knows her type: the strong, unc...
Meanwhile, Joe Pitt is waiting in Roy Cohn's office while Roy nimbly manipulates several blinking phone lines. Roy switches between arguing with a client whose court date he missed, arranging theater tickets for the wife of a visiting judge, and cursing out an underling. Joe watches him uncomfortably. As Roy uses swear words, Joe asks him not to ta...
Joe's wife Harper is sitting alone in their apartment talking to herself and worrying—she imagines the ozone layer disappearing. Mr. Lies, a travel agent who Harper imagines, suddenly appears. Harper asks for a guided tour of Antarctica to see the hole in the ozone layer. She confesses her terrible fears about the world and the state of her marriag...
The scene cuts to Louis Ironson, Sarah's grandson, and his lover Prior Walter. They are sitting on a bench outside the funeral home and Louis is about to leave for the cemetery. He remembers his grandmother and apologizes to Prior for not introducing him, saying that family events make him feel closeted. Louis asks why Prior is in a bad mood, assum...
Joe asks Harper if she is willing to move to Washington, but she asks him to turn the job down, offering a series of lame, unconvincing excuses and ridiculous fears. Joe asks her how many Valium pills she has taken today; after first denying it, she admits she has had three. At first he tries to calm her, promising that things are changing for good...
Although the beginning of Act One only gives brief glimpses of the play's central characters, it nevertheless reveals the conflicts that will confront them for the rest of the play. Louis and Prior experience a terrible shock—Prior's revelation that he has AIDS—and that awful moment signals the inevitable destruction of their relationship. Prior te...
Part One: Millennium Approaches. Set in New York City, the play takes place between October 1985 and February 1986. The play begins at a funeral, where an elderly rabbi eulogizes the deceased woman's entire generation of immigrants who risked their lives to build a community in the United States.
- Tony Kushner
- 1992
Play by Tony Kushner, full show. Part 1 and 2: Milennium Approaches and Perestroika. Addeddate. 2020-07-27 21:10:45. Color. color. Identifier. angels-in-america-perestroika-act-1. Scanner. Internet Archive HTML5 Uploader 1.6.4. Sound. sound. Reviews. Reviewer: JOAN CEDANO - - June 12, 2023. Subject: :)
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Production Info. Cast: 8 total (3 female, 5 male) Full Length Drama (about 180 minutes) Minimal Set Requirements. Contemporary Costumes. Categories: Bestsellers, The Plays Tags: 1980s, LGBT, Non-naturalistic, Politics.
Full Title: Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes. Part One: Millennium Approaches. Part Two: Perestroika. Where Written: New York City and San Francisco Literary Period: Contemporary queer theater Genre: Political theater, or self-described “Gay Fantasia on National Themes” Setting: New York City in 1985 and 1990, as well as ...
Angels in America - Beth Shalom
