About this title: Tony Kushner's two-part masterwork is now available in a single edition to coincide with the broadcast of the epic HBO special directed by Mike Nichols and starring Meryl Streep, Al Pacino, Emma Thompson, Mary-Louise Parker, Jeffrey Wright, Michael Gambon and Simon Callow, scheduled for December 2003.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Date Published: 2003-11-01
ISBN-13:9781559362313ISBN:1559362316
Description: Very Good. Softcover, Very Good Condition. Spine and covers uncreased, no markings to text, light edge and shelf wear. NOT X library book. read more
Edition: 1st Ed(AsSuch)
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Theatre Communic. Group, New York, NY
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9781559362313ISBN:1559362316
Description: VG+ 289pgs Trade Size Paperback. Small owner name, address sticker on Contents page, o.w. clean, bright & very tight. No ink names, tears, Chips, foxing etc. Rest of book in New condition. Film tie-in with HBO Film credits on rear cover. Starred Al Pacino, meryl Streep & Emma Thompson. ISBN 1559362316. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Date Published: 2003-11-01
ISBN-13:9781559362313ISBN:1559362316
Description: NEW. Softcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9781559362313. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9781559362313ISBN:1559362316
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9781559362313ISBN:1559362316
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by author. Paperback like new. "Autographed copy" sticker on front cover. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 304 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: First edition. first combined paperback edition
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9781559362313ISBN:1559362316
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by author. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 304 p. Audience: General/trade. First edition thus. First Combined Paperback Edition, First Printing. The book is brand new and unread in mint condition. A very fine signed copy of the first combined edition of Kushner's two plays entitled Angels in America: Part I-Millennium Approaches and Part II-Perestroika. read more
Edition: First Combined Edition, First printing
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9781559362313ISBN:1559362316
Description: Signed by Tony Kushner directly on the title page, not inscribed to anyone. First Combined Edition, First Printing. Softcover. The book is brand new and unread in mint condition. No dust jacket as issued. Pictorial wraps. A very fine signed copy of the first combined edition of Kushner's two plays entitled Angels in America: Part I-Millennium Approaches and Part II-Perestroika. An "autographed copy" sticker is on the front cover. Pictorial cover shows Emma Thompson from the HBO production, ... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
ISBN-13:9781559362313ISBN:1559362316
Description: Good. Light shelving wear with minimal damage to cover and bindings. Pages show minor use. Help save a tree. Buy all your used books from Green Earth Books. Read. Recycle and Reuse! read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Consortium Book Sales & Dist
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9781559362313ISBN:1559362316
Description: Paperback. Good Used. Has minor wear and/or markings. SKU: 23759998 All orders shipped within 1 business day. 14 day money back guarantee ISBN: 9781559362313 Good Used. Has minor wear and/or markings. SKU: 23759998 All orders shipped within 1 business day. 14 day money back guarantee. read more
Description: Good. Used-Good. 1st Edition May contain highlighting/underlining/notes/etc. May have used stickers on cover. Ships same or next day. Expedited shipping takes 2-3 business days; standard shipping takes 4-14 business days. read more
"Neo-conservatism has lots of sexual tension. Well, at least that's what we talked about in my contemporary theater class. But it also talks about ideas of law and justice and they are competing, contradictory ideas. Somehow, though, they are synthesized (well, the somehow is through democracy, at last that's my argument).
A great read for anyone who is fairly open-minded -- there are some weird moments -- and an interesting one."
"There are few books I'll re-read with some regularity. This is my third reading, I've seen part one about 30 times (work), and I still manage to chuckle at the jokes and find new meaning within the script and characters. Angels in America is a brilliant piece of work."
"Tony Kushner, Angels in America: Perestroika (Theatre Communications Group, 1993)
There are times when I think the afterword should be banned. These time usually come when an author can't resist using an afterword to push some sort of agenda, as is the case here. It's especially true when the agenda being pushed is so knee-jerk and ill-thought-out that it makes me want to bang my head against a wall at how little the person writing this idiocy has thought about what it is he's saying. Thankfully, though, as was the case with the first Angels in America book, the play itself manages to keep all the knee-jerk idiocy where it belongs: in the subtext. Most of the time, anyway (there's one scene, again, that has no other reason but to push a political agenda, but in this volume, it's a much shorter scene, and more obviously played for humor).
Perestroika continues the story found in Millennium Approaches, giving us the same characters (though adding a few extras) and continuing on in their lives. The encounters and fates of the different sets of characters are twined tighter and tighter, bringing some of them to understanding and alienating others.
I do have to say there were pieces of this I didn't see coming; while the ultimate fates of some characters was obvious from the get-go, Kushner cleverly subverts our ideas about predestination to provide some surprises at the end. And even though these characters are obviously meant as archetypes, he does make them into real people. It's quite good, except for bits of that final scene, and it probably would have gotten the same rating as the first were it not for that horrible, horrible afterword. ***"
"Excerpts from reflections I wrote for "Gender, Bodies, and the Medical Establishment":
"It's interesting to note how Angels in America jolts my sense of cultural context, in the sense that there has been a shift in the way that we think about AIDS since it became so prevalent in the 1980s. Then, as is evidenced through the characters of the play, it was the "homosexual plague"; I think that now, with the epidemic in Africa and greater awareness in general, it's slowly losing that label. But regardless, it was a disease that came into the public sphere through its prevalence in the gay community, and I think that Kushner is right to highlight this, if only in the name of safe-sex education.
But what is AIDS in this play? It's more than a biblical punishment handed down on Roy Cohn for years of corruption, extortion, and murder. It's more than a plague. Because it's only when Prior is diagnosed and becomes very sick that he is visited by the Angel and we learn that he will be the Prophet. It is through his experience with the disease that he becomes aware of these events of biblical magnitude, that he is able to find some sort of perspective on the struggle that he and so many of his friends have and will continue to face.
I think what Kushner is trying to make the audience aware of is, first and foremost, that everyday people are contracting this disease and dying from it. As Prior points out, "This disease will be the end of many of us, but not nearly all, and the dead will be commemorated and will struggle on with the living, and we are not going away. We won't die secret deaths anymore. The world only spins forward. We will be citizens" (280). Underlying this struggle with AIDS, as we can see, is a struggle for legitimacy in a world which denies it to members of the queer community. This play not only highlights the ways in which queer men must maintain invisibility, but the ways in which it is forced upon them, AIDS being yet another way of silencing their voices."
" The way that characters identify seems to be one of the major forces moving the plot forward in Angels in America; the conflicts between identities like Democrat and Republican, straight and queer, and Jew and Mormon all fuel the play. I think, for the purposes of this class, it is important to think about the way in which AIDS has also become an identity category (in the same way that many disabilities or long-term illnesses are); and the way that the characters in the play choose to identify or not with it.
Roy's rejection of the label of AIDS in Millennium Approaches is very important, because it reflects perfectly the cultural value with which AIDS is imbued in mainstream society-first of all, nobody wants to get it, but besides the fact that it's still incurable, there will always be the hidden message that AIDS occurs in the queer community, and being diagnosed labels you as a homosexual.
Prior's acceptance of his disease is perhaps even more important because his character now engages in a sort of queer reading (for lack of a better term) of the situation. There is a functionality which results from his disease-a sense in which it is connected with his lucidity/hallucinations/revelations, and with his ultimate ability to re-introduce a sense of community into the play with the final scene. With its inclusion of characters like Belize, Louis, and Hannah (all characters which have previously enjoyed a fair amount of conflict with each other), it serves as a springboard for the idea that the devastation that AIDS, Republicans, religion, racism, and homophobia wreak ultimately functions to bring the United States as a community back together.""
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