Angels in America

Angels in America

Author: Tony Kushner

Publisher:

Published: 2017-04-13

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 9781848426313

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America in the mid-1980s. In the midst of the AIDS crisis and a conservative Reagan administration, New Yorkers grapple with life and death, love and sex, heaven and hell. This edition, published alongside the major revival at the National Theatre in 2017, contains both plays, Part One: Millennium Approaches, and Part Two: Perestroika.


Angels in America at the British National Theatre

Angels in America at the British National Theatre

Author: Emily Garside

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2022-10-21

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 1476647488

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Angels in America was one of the most significant pieces of American theatre in the 20th Century. Much has been written on Tony Kushner's epic drama. However, the National Theatre of Great Britain's productions of the show are relatively under-discussed. Not only was the National Theatre responsible for helping to originate the play in the early 1990s, but it helped revitalize interest in 2018 with Marianne Elliott's reimagined version starring Andrew Garfield and Nathan Lane. This book considers the role of the National in the play's history, and how Elliott's production reframed the play 25 years after the original; it chronicles the tumultuous first production and the play's successes in London and New York. The book also looks at the key features of the play: its representation of AIDS, its status as an iconic gay play and its searing political commentary. Concluding with an in-depth analysis of Marianne Elliott's reimagining of the play, this book is an up-to-date history of Angels in America and a reflection on its continued importance.


Angels in America

Angels in America

Author: Tony Kushner

Publisher:

Published: 2017-04-13

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 9781848426313

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America in the mid-1980s. In the midst of the AIDS crisis and a conservative Reagan administration, New Yorkers grapple with life and death, love and sex, heaven and hell. This edition, published alongside the major revival at the National Theatre in 2017, contains both plays, Part One: Millennium Approaches, and Part Two: Perestroika.


1972: the Future of Sex

1972: the Future of Sex

Author: The Wardrobe Ensemble

Publisher: Nick Hern Books

Published: 2020-05-12

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781848428478

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A 60-minute devised romp through the ins and outs of those excellently awkward first sexual encounters.


Approaching the Millennium

Approaching the Millennium

Author: Deborah R. Geis

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9780472066230

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Leading critics, scholars, and theater practictioners consider the most talked-about play of the 1990s


Tony Kushner's Angels in America

Tony Kushner's Angels in America

Author: Ken Nielsen

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2013-08-05

Total Pages: 147

ISBN-13: 1441159460

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Angels in America paved a new way for American theatre in its combination of heightened theatricality and politics. Tony Kushner has emerged as one of the American theatre's leading playwrights and productions worldwide have meant that the play has been recognized as the most important American play in decades. With the scope of the characters' sexual, class and religious affiliations in the play, Angels in America offers a unique possibility to discuss the construction of American identity in the late 1980s and 1990s. This guide provides a comprehensive critical introduction to the play, giving students an overview of the background and context; detailed analysis of the play including its structure, style and characters; analysis of key production issues and choices; an overview of the performance history from the first performances of Millennium Approaches and Perestroika to recent productions and the 2003 HBO adaptation; and an annotated guide to further reading highlighting key critical approaches.


Leopoldstadt

Leopoldstadt

Author: Tom Stoppard

Publisher: Grove Press

Published: 2020-08-25

Total Pages: 125

ISBN-13: 0802157726

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**Winner of the Tony Award for Best Play** Finally making its Broadway debut in a limited engagement run, Tom Stoppard’s humane and heartbreaking Olivier Award-winning play of love, family, and endurance At the beginning of the twentieth century, Leopoldstadt was the old, crowded Jewish quarter of Vienna, a city humming with artistic and intellectual excitement. Stoppard’s epic yet intimate drama centers on Hermann Merz, a manufacturer and baptized Jew married to Catholic Gretl, whose extended family convene at their fashionable apartment on Christmas Day in 1899. Yet by the time the play closes, Austria has passed through the convulsions of war, revolution, impoverishment, annexation by Nazi Germany, and the Holocaust, which stole the lives of 65,000 Austrian Jews alone. From one of today’s most acclaimed playwrights, Leopoldstadt is a human and heartbreaking drama of literary brilliance, historical verisimilitude, and powerful emotion.


The Normal Heart

The Normal Heart

Author: Larry Kramer

Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 9780573619939

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Dramatizes the onset of the AIDS epidemic in New York City, the agonizing fight to get political and social recognition of it's problems, and the toll exacted on private lives. 2 acts, 16 scenes, 13 men, 1 woman, 1 setting.


Paradise

Paradise

Author: Kae Tempest

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Published: 2021-08-05

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 1529045274

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‘Tempest has a gift for shattering and transcending convention.’ New York Times Philoctetes lives in a cave on a desolate island: the wartime hero is now a wounded outcast. Stranded for ten years, he sees a chance of escape when a young soldier appears with tales of Philoctetes’ past glories. But with hope comes suspicion – and, as an old enemy emerges, he is faced with an even greater temptation: revenge. Kae Tempest is now widely acknowledged as a revolutionary force in contemporary British poetry, music and drama; they continue to expand the range of their work with a new version of Sophocles’ Philoctetes in a bold new translation. Like Brand New Ancients before it, Paradise shows Tempest’s gift for lending the old tales an immediate contemporary relevance – and will find this timeless story a wide new audience.