1994

Angels in America
Part I: Millennium Approaches
by Tony Kushner

State Theatre in Association with
the Melbourne Theatre Company
Playhouse, October, 1994.

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

There are no spirits, no ghosts, no angels in America. So says one of the characters in Tony Kushner’s extraordinary play about sexual identity, politics, puritanism, AIDS and the millenium. In what he calls A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, Kushner ambitiously intersects the wheels of American history and religion with the twin …

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