The UK’s National Theater at Home has just added to their online repertoire Tony Kushner’s queer masterpiece Angels In America. This is the National’s multi-award winning production from 2017 and which won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Revival in London , and when it transferred to Broadway it collected three Tony’s including Best Revival of a Play.
Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes is a two-part play and is a complex, often metaphorical, and at times symbolic examination of AIDS and homosexuality in America in the 1980s. Certain major and minor characters are supernatural beings (angels) or deceased persons (ghosts).
This particular production is directed by Marianne Elliott, with a cast including Andrew Garfield, Nathan Lane, Denise Gough and Russell Tovey. The two parts of the play are separately presentable and entitled Millennium Approaches and Perestroika, respectively and are screened in this way too.
For Angels in America Part One: Millenium Approaches click HERE
N.b. it will be available on line (with Part Two) for the whole of this year.
Labels: 2021, Aids, Angels In America, National Theatre
