Angels in America Part One: Millennium Approaches by Tony Kushner
Monday 4 December, 7pm Post Show Q&A
Wednesday 6 December, 7pm Captioned Performance
Angels in America Part One: Millennium Approaches pivots around two couples: Louis and Prior, and Joe and Harper.
Abandoned after his AIDS diagnosis, Prior questions his sanity and his partner Louis is no longer able to cope with the strain of his responsibilities as a caregiver.
Meanwhile, Harper struggles with anxiety and hallucinations which are exacerbated when her husband is offered a job in a different state.
Other characters include the infamous real life character of Roy Cohn. Roy was a McCarthy-ite lawyer who prosecuted Julius and Ethel Rosenberg in the espionage trial which led to their execution in 1953.
Premiering in 1991, Tony Kushner’s multi-award-winning, witty epic is set during the Reagan years in America and has been heralded as "one of the twentieth century’s defining works of American art.”
Age restriction: 16+
Content warnings
This production contains: strong language, sexual content, nudity, drug and alcohol use, depictions of AIDs and mental illness, discussions of death, racism, antisemitism and homophobia.
Cast in alphabetical order
Jack Ambrose Henry, Roy's Doctor/Man in the Park/Prior 2/The Eskimo
Alfie Jallow Belize
Julia Kass Harper
Tom Lyons Mr Lies/Martin Heller/Prior 1
Sidonie McLaren The Angel/The Voice/Emily, a Nurse/Sister Ella Chapter/Woman in the South Bronx
Reece Miller Roy M Cohn
Jonathan Rubin Louis Ironson
Emma Symmonds Hannah Pitt/Rabbi Isidor Chemelwitz/Ethel Rosenberg
Jasper Talbot Joseph Pitt
Fred Woodley Evans Prior Walter
All other parts are played by members of the company.
Creative team
Director Roger Haines
Associate Director Kathleen Hefferon
Designer Judith Croft
Lighting Designer Abigail Sage
Sound Designer Kacey Thurbon
Music specially composed by Richard Bodgers.
Freesheet and full production team
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Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
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