Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches.
Full Title: Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes. Part One: Millennium Approaches. Part Two: Perestroika. Where Written: New York City and San Francisco Literary Period: Contemporary queer theater Genre: Political theater, or self-described “Gay Fantasia on National Themes” Setting: New York City in 1985 and 1990, as well as.
Millennium Approaches opens with Rabbi Isador Chemelwitz next to a coffin with the body of Sarah Ironson inside. Sarah was a member of an influential Jewish family who came to America hoping to build a better life for her family. The Rabbi sadly notes how soon there will no longer be people like Sarah because the world is changing.
Homosexuality. Angels in America frankly and authentically deals with homosexuality, not an altogether common theme in major works of literature in the 1990s. The main male characters are all homosexuals and the play offers a glimpse into their lives during the 1980s; these are fully human, nuanced, and complicated figures navigating life, love, heartbreak, and disease.
Angels in America: Millennium Approaches is a complex, dense, and very long play, so the highest compliment you can give to any production is that it kept the audience’s attention right to the end. That’s certainly an accolade which the ADC’s version, directed by Alistair Henfrey, deserves, maintaining energy and building momentum until the close.
In simplified form, the plot of Angels in America focuses on the fact that both kinds of community are destroyed and then recreated. In Millennium, relationships end, Roy stretches and contorts the law, the characters slide further into isolation and loneliness. All this wreckage is symbolized by the physical destruction caused by the Angel's appearance at the end of Part One. But Perestroika.
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A two-part, seven-hour play, Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes is an epic of life in America in the mid-1980’s. In the play, self-interest has overtaken love and compassion.