Angels in America
America in the mid-1980s. In the midst of the AIDS crisis and a conservative Reagan administration, New Yorkers grapple with life and death, love and sex, heaven and hell.
Part One: Millennium Approaches
Part Two: Perestroika
Cast & Crew
Cast
A Homeless Woman | Amanda Lawrence |
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Aleksii Antedilluvianovich Prelapsarianov | Susan Brown |
Angel Shadow | Stuart Angell |
Angel Shadow | Laura Caldow |
Angel Shadow | Claire Lambert |
Angel Shadow | Becky Namgauds |
Angel Shadow | Stan West |
Angel Shadow | Lewis Wilkins |
Belize | Nathan Stewart-Jarrett |
Emily, A Nurse | Amanda Lawrence |
Emily, Mormon Centre | Amanda Lawrence |
Ethel Rosenberg | Susan Brown |
Hannah Pitt | Susan Brown |
Harper Pitt | Denise Gough |
Henry, Roy’s Doctor | Susan Brown |
Joseph Pitt | Russell Tovey |
Louis Ironson | James McArdle |
Martin Heller | Denise Gough |
Mr Lies | Nathan Stewart-Jarrett |
Prior 1 | Russell Tovey |
Prior 2 | Nathan Lane |
Prior Walter | Andrew Garfield |
Rabbi Isidor Chemelwitz | Susan Brown |
Roy M Cohn | Nathan Lane |
Sister Ella Chapter | Amanda Lawrence |
The Angel | Amanda Lawrence |
The Angel Africanii | Denise Gough |
The Angel Antarctica | Nathan Lane |
The Angel Asiatica | Susan Brown |
The Angel Australia | James McArdle |
The Angel Europa | Russell Tovey |
The Angel Oceania | Nathan Stewart-Jarrett |
The Eskimo | Russell Tovey |
The Father, Mormon Centre | Russell Tovey |
The Man in the Park | Andrew Garfield |
The Mother, Mormon Centre | Amanda Lawrence |
The Recorded Voice of Caleb, Mormon Centre | Nathan Stewart-Jarrett |
The Recorded Voice of Orrin, Mormon Centre | Amanda Lawrence |
The Voice | Amanda Lawrence |
Understudy Angel Shadows | Claire Lambert |
Understudy Belize | Arun Blair-Mangat |
Understudy Hannah Pitt | Kate Harper |
Understudy Harper Pitt | Paksie Vernon |
Understudy Joseph Pitt / Louis Ironson | John Hastings |
Understudy Prior Walter | Mateo Oxley |
Understudy Roy M Cohn | Mark Arnold |
Understudy The Angel | Laura Caldow |
Crew | |
Aerial Director | Gwen Hales |
Aerial Rigging Supervisor | Neill Shimmen |
Armoury and Special Effects | Steve Dart |
Armoury and Special Effects | Paul Wanklin |
Assistant Stage Manager | Jo Phipps |
Assistant Stage Manager | Abbie Procter |
Associate Director | Harry Mackrill |
Associate Set Designer | Jim Gaffney |
Automation Programmer | Richard Booth |
Automation Programmer | Jo Colley |
Automation Supervisor | Richard Kent |
Automation Supervisor | Richard Wilcox |
Casting | Charlotte Bevan |
Casting | Jim Carnahan |
Casting | Jacob Sparrow |
Choreographer and Movement | Robby Graham |
Company Dialect Work | Charmian Hoare |
Company Dialect Work | Hazel Holder |
Company Voice Work | Charmian Hoare |
Company Voice Work | Jeannette Nelson |
Construction Supervisor | Dave Cotton |
Construction Supervisor | Barrie Nield |
Costume Buyer | Fiona Parker |
Costume Design Assistant | Rosey Morling |
Costume Designer | Nicky Gillibrand |
Costume Supervisor | Deborah Andrews |
Deputy Production Manager | Anthony Newton |
Deputy Stage Manager | Nik Haffenden |
Digital Art | Daniel Radley-Bennett |
Digital Drawing | Janet Williamson |
Director | Marianne Elliott |
Fight Director | Kate Waters |
Flying Supervisor | Ian Jolly |
Flying Supervisor | Danny O’Neill |
Flyman | Suresh Chawla |
Illusions | Chris Fisher |
Lighting Designer | Paule Constable |
Lighting Programmer | Karin Anderson |
Lighting Programmer | Laura Choules |
Lighting Programmer | Jane Dutton |
Lighting Supervisor | Laurie Clayton |
Lighting Supervisor | Neill Pollard |
Music | Adrian Sutton |
Music Associate | Matthew Gough |
Production Manager | Tariq Rifaat |
Production Photographer | Helen Maybanks |
Production Sound Engineer | Joel Price |
Production Sound Engineer | Alex Twiselton |
Project Draughting | Alan Bain |
Project Producer | Christine Gettins |
Prop Supervisor | Rebecca Johnston |
Prop Supervisor | Eleanor Smith |
Puppetry Designer | Nick Barnes |
Puppetry Designer | Finn Caldwell |
Puppetry Director and Movement | Finn Caldwell |
Rigging Supervisor | Barry Peavot |
Rigging Supervisor | Matthew Wheeler |
Scenic Art Supervisor | Ian Cooper |
Scenic Art Supervisor | Sarah Kier |
Set Designer | Ian MacNeil |
Sound Designer | Ian Dickinson |
Sound Operator | Jamie McIntyre |
Sound Operator | Clio Nonis |
Staff Director | Miranda Cromwell |
Stage Manager | Shane Thom |
Stage Supervisor | Ken Pedersen |
Stage Supervisor | Dave Tuff |
Video Supervisor | Mogzi Bromley-Morgans |
Wigs, Hair & Make-up Supervisor | Sarah Louise Packham |
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Play description
Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes is a two-part play by American playwright Tony Kushner. The work won numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Tony Award for Best Play, and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play. Part one of the play premiered in 1991[1] and its Broadway opening was in 1993.[1]
The play is a complex, often metaphorical, and at times symbolic examination of AIDS and homosexuality in America in the 1980s. Certain major and minor characters are supernatural beings (angels) or deceased persons (ghosts). The play contains multiple roles for several of the actors. Initially and primarily focusing on a gay couple in Manhattan, the play also has several other storylines, some of which occasionally intersect.
The two parts of the play are separately presentable and entitled Millennium Approaches and Perestroika, respectively. The play has been adapted into an HBO 2003 miniseries of the same title. The Seattle Times listed the series as among “Best of the filmed AIDS portrayals” on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of AIDS.[2] The playwright and professor of theater studies John M. Clum called the play “a turning point in the history of gay drama, the history of American drama, and of American literary culture”.[3]
In 2017 the show received a much-acclaimed West End revival which won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Revival. The production later transferred to Broadway where it received eleven Tony Award nominations, the most ever for a non-musical play at that time, and won three: for Best Revival of a Play, Best Actor in a Leading Role in a Play for Andrew Garfield and Best Actor in a Featured Role in a Play for Nathan Lane.
Photo credits
- Angels in America by Helen Maybanks, Creative Commons Attribution
- Angels in America by Helen Maybanks, Creative Commons Attribution
- Angels in America by Helen Maybanks, Creative Commons Attribution
- Angels in America by Helen Maybanks, Creative Commons Attribution
- Angels in America by Helen Maybanks, Creative Commons Attribution
- Angels in America by Helen Maybanks, Creative Commons Attribution
- Angels in America by Helen Maybanks, Creative Commons Attribution
- Angels in America by Helen Maybanks, Creative Commons Attribution
- Angels in America by Helen Maybanks, Creative Commons Attribution
- Promotional Campaign Image for Angels in America by Jason Bell, Creative Commons Attribution
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