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| Original Title: | Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes |
| ISBN: | 1559362316 (ISBN13: 9781559362313) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Angels in America #1-2 |
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In two full-length plays--Millennium Approaches and Perestroika--Kushner tells the story of a handful of people trying to make sense of the world. Prior is a man living with AIDS whose lover Louis has left him and become involved with Joe, an ex-Mormon and political conservative whose wife, Harper, is slowly having a nervous breakdown. These stories are contrasted with that of Roy Cohn (a fictional re-creation of the infamous American conservative ideologue who died of AIDS in 1986) and his attempts to remain in the closet while trying to find some sort of personal salvation in his beliefs.Identify Appertaining To Books Angels in America (Angels in America #1-2)
| Title | : | Angels in America (Angels in America #1-2) |
| Author | : | Tony Kushner |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Complete Edition; Movie Tie-In Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 304 pages |
| Published | : | November 1st 2003 by Theatre Communications Group (first published May 1st 1993) |
| Categories | : | Plays. Drama. LGBT. Fiction. Theatre. GLBT. Queer |
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Ratings: 4.32 From 14931 Users | 654 ReviewsCriticism Appertaining To Books Angels in America (Angels in America #1-2)
i think this is the most important piece of literature ill ever read. thank you tony kushner, this play means so much to me and to so many others. AND I BLESS YOU: MORE LIFE.Unspeakable beauty. Thats something I would like to see.
I've never seen this play performed in person, but reading it in print was still a powerful experience. The AIDS crisis of the 1980's hit when my parents were teenagers, so I don't really remember it, but I think Angels in America really captures it in a way that can be universal to anyone. It is hard in a world with such differing, polarized views on politics, religion, sexuality and gender, to create a story that can have something for everyone and address it all at once. Angels in America
just when you think harper's final monologue has hit you like a ton of bricks, prior's final monologue in the epilogue hits you HARDER. the great work begins, indeed.
This review is of the two plays by Tony Kushner housed under the title ANGELS IN AMERICA: A GAY FANTASIA ON NATIONAL THEMES -- "Millennium Approaches" and "Perestrokia -- which can be produced and mounted individually, or together for one rather long (seven-hour) afternoon and evening in the theater. Although the two plays were workshopped in 1990 and played jointly on Broadway and the West End in 1992 and 1993 -- they are really about the Eighties. Set in 1985 and 1986, with an Epilog in 1990,
I'm not normally a reader of plays, so I was surprised when I sped through this work, which in this edition is actually 2 plays along with a new introduction and some very entertaining notes about staging. This was, I believe, the first play to tackle head-on the AIDS crisis in New York City in the 1980s. I was living in NYC then, and virtually everyone I knew was touched by the disease in some way. And although homosexuality was much less accepted in that era than it is now, this play is still
Angels in America is seven hours long. You need to break the two parts up over the course of a weekend, probably. And it might be the first and it might be the only gay epic ever written. And this is why it's one of the most important books I've read. Luckily it's also one of the best.Its project is a tough one: look at the rise of AIDS in the culture of Reagan-era New York City as experienced by three men who identify as gay, one Mormon who's oriented sexually toward other men, and Roy Cohnwho
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