![]() ![]() Kushner’s play in two parts (a total of six acts) is certainly long, but it’s worth taking time to savor his colloquies and ruminations about politics, religion, loyalty, guilt, and the failure to live up to expectations. Now that sexual differences are more accepted, and many people live with AIDS for years, we look for broader subject matter, and Tony Kushner’s script supplies it. Photo by Helen Maybanks.īack in the 1990s, Angels in America came across as a polemic by gay men who were frightened by the death sentence of AIDS. Its virtues are different from those we admired previously, which became apparent when the new production by the National Theatre in London was streamed to cinemas in HD. It has even greater impact than before, more than a quarter of a century ago. The juxtaposition of those seemingly-opposite qualities is what makes the play memorable. ![]() Angels in America remains a sad, hilarious, hallucinogenic theatrical achievement. ![]()
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