Angels In America: Millennium Approaches

By Tony Kushner

Directed by Stepan Simek

Assistant Professor of Theatre

March 7,8,9 and 14,15,16

Fir Acres Theatre Main Stage , 7:30 p.m.

$8 general; $5 LC faculty/staff/alumni, seniors, non LC students; $3 LC students

Call Theatre Box Office 503 768-7495

Tony Kushner's Angels in America: Millennium Approaches is a Pulitzer Prize winning play that became the most celebrated play of the 1990s in America, and indeed around the world. Tony Kushner has said that he set out to write a play on "AIDS, Mormons, and Roy Cohn, and he subtitled it "A Gay Fantasia on National Themes." The play reckons with the worsening AIDS crisis in mid eighties at the very height of Ronald Reagan's conservative revolution. It is highly political as it takes aim at the selfish politics of the 80s, the Mormon Church, the greedy and self-possessed powerbrokers in Washington D.C., and other national themes, but it also focuses on the problems of individuals caught in the web of AIDS, personal relationships, individual beliefs, and life changing decisions concerning sexuality and political allegiances. While Angels in America is an epic play of truly millennial proportions, it is also a delicate "chamber play" that depicts extraordinary ordinary people and their lives in front of a large, sprawling canvas of American history, politic, and religious and cosmological themes.