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Kushner's Angels in America is a clear-eyed, insightful examination of the political, social, and moral forces shaping America during the 1980's, namely the decline of communism and the rising political power of the gay movement. There is American idealism at the basis of Kusher's work. Through his great gifts of humor and empathy, he brings news of that most beautiful, divided, and unexplained country--the human heart. Angels is essentially about betrayal and how the heart learns or doesn't learn to live with loss. With Angels in America, Kushner brings together his studies in Brecht's political theatre and the narrative tradition of Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee Williams. This unique hybrid spanning heaven and earth and mixing the metaphysical and the mundane is what the playwrights call Theatre of the Fabulous.
Kushner's Angels in America is a clear-eyed, insightful examination of the political, social, and moral forces shaping America during the 1980's, namely the decline of communism and the rising political power of the gay movement. There is American idealism at the basis of Kusher's work. Through his great gifts of humor and empathy, he brings news of that most beautiful, divided, and unexplained country--the human heart. Angels is essentially about betrayal and how the heart learns or doesn't learn to live with loss. With Angels in America, Kushner brings together his studies in Brecht's political theatre and the narrative tradition of Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee Williams. This unique hybrid spanning heaven and earth and mixing the metaphysical and the mundane is what the playwrights call Theatre of the Fabulous.
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