Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition
A two-part play set in 1980s New York, intertwining AIDS, politics, religion, sexuality, and spiritual crisis.
Work Information
In a breaking era, desire and faith collide.
A collected edition of Millennium Approaches and Perestroika. The play spans AIDS, conservative politics, faith, and solitary desire on an expansive scale, becoming one of the defining works of 1990s American theatre.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Theatre Communications Group
- Published
- 2013-12-24
- Pages
- 304 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 13.46 x 2.54 x 21.34 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781559363846
- ISBN-10
- 9781559363846
- Price
- 1545 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/History/Americas/United States/20th Century
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR DRAMA Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes includes Part One, Millennium Approaches and Part Two, Perestroika “Glorious. A monumental, subversive, altogether remarkable masterwork…Details of specific catastrophes may have changed since this Reagan-era AIDS epic won the Pulitzer and the Tony, but the real cosmic and human obsessions—power, religion, sex, responsibility, the future of the world—are as perilous, yet as falling-down funny, as ever.” – Linda Winer, Newsday "A vast, miraculous play... provocative, witty and deeply upsetting... a searching and radical rethinking of American political drama." - Frank Rich, New York Times "A victory for theater, for the transforming power of the imagination to turn devastation into beauty." - John Lahr, New Yorker “An enormously impressive work of the imagination and intellect, a towering example of what theater stretched to its full potential can achieve.” - Philadelphia Inquirer "Angels in America is the finest drama of our time, speaking to us of an entire era of life and death as no other play within memory. It ranks as nothing less than one of the greatest plays of the twentieth century." - John Heilpern, New York Observer “Some playwrights want to change the world. Some want to revolutionize theater. Tony Kushner is that rarity of rarities: a writer who has the promise to do both.” - New York Times This new edition of Tony Kushner's masterpiece is published with the author's recent changes and a new introduction in celebration of the twentieth anniversary of its original production. One of the most honored American plays in history, Angels in America was awarded two Tony Awards for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It was made into an Emmy Award-winning HBO film directed by Mike Nichols. This two-part epic, subtitled "A Gay Fantasia on National Themes," has received hundreds of performances worldwide in more than twenty-six languages.
Tony Kushner ’s plays include Angels in America ; Hydriotaphia, or the Death of Dr. Brown ; The Illusion , adapted from the play by Pierre Cornelle; Slavs! ; A Bright Room Called Day ; Homebody/Kabul ; Caroline, or Change , a musical with composer Jeanine Tesori; and The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures . He wrote the screenplays for Mike Nichols’s film of Angels in America and for Steven Spielberg’s Munich and Lincoln . His books include The Art of Maurice Sendak: 1980 to the Present; Brundibar , with illustrations by Maurice Sendak; and Wrestling with Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict , co-edited with Alisa Solomon. Among many honors, Kushner is the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize, two Tony Awards, three Obie Awards, two Evening Standard Awards, an Olivier Award, an Emmy Award, two Oscar nominations, and the Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2012, he was awarded a National Medal of Arts by President Barack Obama. He lives in Manhattan with his husband, Mark Harris.
Reviews
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Does justice to a great play.
This is my favorite play. Tony Kushner rendered a heart-wrenching story, and this most completed version brought it even closer to perfection. Noticable changes have been made, especially to Part 2: "Perestroika," but I think they all work to the overall story's advantage. The two scenes that were cut from the original published version are still available to read in the back. There are also notes and an intro written by Kushner himself. For someone who claims not to care for intros, he makes decent work of them. ;) The book itself is very sturdy (I bought the hardcover version), the cover beautiful (even if I'm not a fan of dust jackets) and the pages have held up through three read-throughs so far as I carry this book all over town like a security blanket and read it everywhere from the breakfast table to waiting rooms to my local park. Most satisfying purchase I've made yet. I recommend this to anyone who needs their heart broken and/or healed, or just has space on their bookshelf.
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a modern classic
More Life, a time for Hope
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The 2 Part split formation works perfectly to highlight the shift in atmosphere and am glad to say the ending isn't predictable
Pure genius! The 2 Part split formation works perfectly to highlight the shift in atmosphere and am glad to say the ending isn't predictable. Time to find a live stage version of this.
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Faultless transaction
All went as well as it could go with this order. No delay, book arrived in condition as described and I have no reason for complaint.
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A Wonderful Read
After watching the Angels in America DVD, I wanted to see how it was originally as a play, and it does not disappoint. In many ways, I think it's a better experience reading this play than it was to see it on my tiny television. Angels in America is essentially a theatrical work, and the miniseries came off just as that, a filmed stage play, espcially in Part 1: Millenium Approaches, so that it seemed really static, even with, if not because of, Mike Nichols' direction. It was, on the other hand, tremendously faithful to the play script. As far as I could tell, not a word was changed. Part 2: Perestroika, however, had a few changes from the script to screen, and those changes worked well, making the filmed version far more dynamic than Part 1. There's some additional backstory that got dropped in the translation, but the spirit is very much the same. Ultimately, I recommend that you watch the DVD to get an idea of the characters' mannerisms and the staging, then read the script to fully appreciate the poetry of Tony Kushner's language. Buy it and love it!