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Original Title:	Millennium Approaches
ISBN:	1559360615 (ISBN13: 9781559360616)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Angels in America #1
Setting:	New York City, New York(United States) New York State(United States)
Literary Awards:	Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1993)

Millennium Approaches (Angels in America #1)

Tony Kushner

Paperback | Pages: 119 pages

Rating: 4.28 | 18982 Users | 340 Reviews

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Title	:	Millennium Approaches (Angels in America #1)
Author	:	Tony Kushner
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 119 pages
Published	:	May 1st 1993 by Theatre Communications Group (first published February 13th 1992)
Categories	:	Plays. Drama. Fiction. LGBT. Theatre

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Angels in America is a play in two parts by American playwright Tony Kushner.

The play 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). The play contains multiple roles for several of the actors. Initially and primarily focusing on a gay couple in Manhattan, the play also has several other storylines, some of which occasionally intersect.

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I saw a brilliantly acted, produced, directed and designed performance of this play, but the script just wasn't able to hold up. There are some wonderfully subtle moments that are developed but they are almost instantly destroyed under brutally obvious exposition. The angel bursting through the wall at the end is the final "fuck you" to any audience member who prefers character development to nonsensical spectacle. Ideas do not have to be shoved down our throats for us to understand... or maybe

Iconoclastic and surreally immediate, this meditation, this fantasia on national themes, probably gets better with age. As the tragedy of HIV/AIDS at its inception in the middle of the Western world becomes more pronounced, even more beautifully terrifying--a seed that will germinate (MUST!) in all members and future members of the LGBtQIA+ community. As Part One ends in a fascinating hyperbolic HALELLUJAH! I cannot even fathom a better link to, a more fanatical search for and more angsty wait

Gosh, I almost forgot how much I love this play! Tony Kushner is a fucking genius, no doubt about it.Yep, I'm also going to reread "Angels in America, Part Two: Perestroika" and to rewatch the amazing HBO miniseries. Lucky me!Harper: I'm not addicted. I don't believe in addiction and I... I never drink and I never take drugs. Prior: Well, smell you, Nancy Drew.Harper: Except for Valium. Prior: Except Valium in wee fistfuls. Harper: It's terrible. Mormons are not supposed to be addicted to

Harper: It's terrible. Mormons are not supposed to be addicted to anything. I'm a Mormon.Prior: I'm a homosexual.Harper: Oh! In my church we don't believe in homosexuals.Prior: In my church we don't believe in Mormons. ~ Act 1, Scene 7I re-read this play, as well as Part II, about once a year or so, just . . . because. It remains one of the most powerful pieces of dramatic literature I've ever read, and I feel lucky that I've been able to see it live on stage. The play is multi-layered,

I didn't know what to expect when I first read this but I ended up liking it. It was quirky and had perfectly flawed characters. It was a good mix of the totally absurd which made the heartbreaking moments more so. I would love to see this in production. I watched bits and pieces of the movie since I was interested in seeing if they were going to double up on the roles like originally intended- and they did for some but not all.

The master. Have read this and part II twice, watched the mini series, seen a small stage version. Australian writer Robert Dessaix once said Angels in America was one of the few texts that elevated AIDS to art. I agree in this case, though Kushner's work is so much more: truth, beauty and an elegy for modern, fearful America. Here's my 2009 interview with the playwright.http://www.stevedow.com.au/default.as...New York playwright Tony Kushner writes about angels, but he is not so sure there is

Angels in America is one of the most ambitious pieces of mainstream American theatre ever staged, and one of the most rewarding. Criss-crossing biblical metaphor with the AIDS crisis of the 80s, it is massively successful in creating a story and characters that are both empathetic and strewn with fantastical majesty. An extraordinary piece of drama. Also, surprisingly humorous.