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Angels in America in London

Paul Olsen

Prior to embarking on a recent trip to
Great Britain I was sure that, upon my re-
turn, I would be writing about the night-
life in London, hiking the sheep-covered
Yorkshire Dales, shopping at Harrods,
touring medieval churches, or the latest
word in the Charles/Diana saga. How-
ever, I’d like to share the highlight of the
trip which was attending the Royal Na-
tional TheaI:re’s production of Tony
Kushner’s play Angels in America.

Tony Kushner describes Angels in Amer-
ica as “a gay fantasia on national
themes.” Using a mix of humor, fantasy
and tragedy the play is AIDS drama at its
best. Subtitled Part One: Millennium Ap-
proaches, the play focuses on two cou-
ples (upwardly mobile Mormon Joseph
Pitt, his valium addicted wife Harper and
Louis Ironson and his boyfriend Prior
Walter) and the guilt they experience dur-
ing the Reagan years. Featuring some
real-life characters, including Joseph
McCarthy’s secret homosexual aidel
power broker Roy M. Cohn and the ex-
ecuted Ethel Rosenburg, the play deals

with the ethical and physical decay of
America in the 1980's and is clearly an
indictment of the Reagan administration.

Actors in more than one role, actors as
stage-hands and minimal scenery con-
tribute to this impressive production. In
light of how the AIDS crisis has touched
all of our lives this play cannot help but
make you cry which is only relieved by
the effective placement of humor as ev-
idenced by the witty character Belize, a
nurse/former drag queen and Prior’s for-
mer lover.

American playwright Tony Kushner
wrote Angels in America, as part one of a
two part series. The play, which won the
1990 Fund For New American Playsl
Kennedy Center award and the 1991 Jo-
seph Kesselring Award, premiered in
Britain in January and will be followed
by Part Two: Perestroika. You heard it
here first: Angels in America is un-
forgettable. Watch for it and make plans
to attend or better yet call your travel
agent and book a trip to London!V

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