Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes
Angels in America is a set of two paired plays by Tony Kushner ()[]
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The original text
Subtitled "A Gay Fantasia on National Themes" by Tony Kushner, the set consists of two linked full-length plays, individually titled Part One: Millennium Approaches and Part Two: Perestroika. Set in America in the 1980s against a backdrop of greed, conservatism, sexual politics, and the emergence of AIDS, the plays deal with couples whose relationships are disintegrating.
The original text
Part 1: Millennium Approaches was first produced in Los Angeles in 1992.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1994: Part 1: Millennium Approaches had its first South African production in 1994, directed by Fred Abrahamse for PACT Drama and starring Sean Taylor as "Roy M. Cohn", Nicky Rebelo, Jennifer Steyn, David Butler, Robert Colman, Jacqui Singer, Sechaba Morojele, Rosalind Butler and Dale Cutts. Designer James MacNamara, lighting designer Stan Knight. Performed at the Momentum Theatre in Pretoria and the Alexander Theatre in Johannesburg.
Sources
PACT Angels in America theatre programme, 1994.
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