It has since been adapted into an award-winning television miniseries, directed by Mike Nichols and starring Al Pacino and Meryl Streep, and inducted by Harold Bloom into the Western literary canon.Īlmost 25 years later, it only feels more prophetic, no longer carrying the portends of doom but relics and realities. It captured layers of zeitgeist in a literary scope – the AIDS epidemic, the end of Reagan’s presidency and the ideological shifts it signaled, the nascent rumblings of global warming, race relations, gay rights, political corruption and perhaps most astutely the moral war between religiosity and secularism that raged and still rages on.
When it premiered in San Francisco (and later on Broadway) in 1992, Tony Kushner’s Angels in America brought with its dramatic ringing of the death knell – a feeling of liberation and prophesy. Image: John Stanton, Adam Booth, Stuart Halusz in Angels in America: Part One photograph by Daniel James Grant.
0 kommentar(er)
