Doomsday

Before reading Angels in America, the apocalypses we read about and discussed in class seemed to have at least one thing in common – the whole world was affected. From nuclear destruction to environmental degradation, there was always a sense that come what may, we’re all in this together. (Except, of course, Fundamentalist Christians. And […]

There are no gods here, no ghosts and spirits in America, there are no angels in America, no spiritual past, no racial past, there’s only the political, and the decoys and the ploys to maneuver around the inescapable battle of politics. -Louis In Tony Kushner’s America, there are no angels.   The America he presents […]

Tony Kushner’s Angels in America consists of two plays/parts—“The Millennium Approaches” and “Perestroika.” This particular post is going to focus on the events of the first part rather than the second. In the mid-1980’s, when Kushner wrote this series, with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) hardly a decade old, this virus and the debilitating disease […]