| Product Summary | | Format: Paperback | | ISBN: 9781559360616 | | Publisher: Theatre Communications Group | | Publish Date: 4/1/1993 | | Buy.com Sku: 30275030 | | Item#: R4Q5WK | | Dimensions (in Inches) 5.5H x 5.25L x 0.5T |
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| | | The most anticipated new American play of the decade, this brilliant work is an emotional, poetic, political epic in two parts: Millennium Approaches and Perestroika. Spanning the years of the Reagan administration, it weaves the lives of fictional and historical characters into a feverish web of social, political, and sexual revelations.
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Louis and Prior are lovers trying to deal with the fact that Prior has AIDS; Harper and Joe are a heterosexual Mormon couple, although Joe is actually trying to conceal his homosexuality. Joe works for Roy Cohn, the lawyer who helped Senator McCarthy with communist persecution and who himself went after gays although he was gay and died of AIDS.
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"The best American play in forty years." - Craig LucasNew York Times
"A searching and radical rethinking of the whole esthetic of American political drama in which far-flung hallucinations, explicit sexual encounters and camp humor are given as much weight as erudite ideological argument." - Frank Rich New Yorker
"...[W]ith immense good humor and accessible characters...[Kushner] honors the gay community by telling a story that sets its concerns in the larger historical context of American political life." - John Lahr 11/23/1992 Vanity Fair
"['Angels in America'] is about a decade and a zeitgeist which you just can't discuss without discussing the plague. So it's not a melodrama, like 'The Normal Heart', which I greatly admired, or a rant like 'As Is', which I greatly didn't. It's a meditation." - Tony Kushner March 1993 |
| Author Bio| Tony Kushner | | Born to musician parents, Tony Kushner was exposed to the theater at an early age; his mother was an actress as well. "I saw some of her performances when I was four or five years old, and they were so powerful. I had vivid dreams afterwards," he said to Susan Cheever in "The New York Times". Kushner has also said he realized by the time he was 11 that he was gay, but maintained a straight lifestyle until he was in college, attempting psychotherapy to change his sexual orientation. He was educated at Columbia University, receiving a B.A. in 1978, and he went on to earn an M.F.A. from New York University in 1984. He received a directing grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1985, and won the John Whiting Award in 1990. But it was the "Angels in America" plays that won him the Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award in 1993. |
| Awards |
Lambda Literary Award (1995) |  | won, Lesbian & Gay Drama | |
Lambda Literary Award (1994) | | won, Lesbian & Gay Drama | | |
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