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Angels in America: Millennium Approaches
类型: 话剧
导演: David Esbjornson / Declan Donnellan / George C. Wolfe / Michael Greif / Catherine Ashmore
编剧: Tony Kushner
演员: Henry Goodman / Nick Reding / Felicity Montagu / Marcus D'Amico / Sean Chapman

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Angels in America: Millennium Approaches

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Set in New York City in 1985, Act One of Millennium Approaches introduces us to the central characters . As the play opens, Louis Ironson, a neurotic , gay Jew learns his lover, WASP Prior Walter, has AIDS . As the play and Prior's illness progress, Louis becomes unable to cope and moves out. Meanwhile, closeted homosexual Mormon and Republican law clerk Joe Pitt is offered a major promotion by his mentor , the McCarthyist lawyer Roy Cohn . Joe doesn't immediately take the job because he feels he has to check with his Valium -addicted, agoraphobic wife, Harper, who is unwilling to move. Roy is himself deeply closeted , and soon discovers that he has AIDS .

As the seven-hour play progresses, Prior is visited by ghosts and an angel who proclaim him to be a prophet ; Joe finds himself struggling to reconcile his religion with his sexuality ; Louis struggles with his guilt about leaving Prior and begins a relationship with Joe; Harper's mental health deteriorates as she realizes that Joe is gay; Joe's mother, Hannah, moves to New York to attempt to look after Harper and meets Prior after a failed attempt by Prior to confront Hannah's son; Harper begins to separate from Joe whom she has depended upon and finds strength she was unaware of; and Roy finds himself in the hospital, reduced to the companionship of the ghost of Ethel Rosenberg and his nurse, Belize, a former drag queen and Prior's best friend, who meanwhile has to deal with Louis's constant demands for updates on Prior's health. The subplot involving Cohn is the most political aspect of the play. Portrayed as a self-loathing, power-hungry hypocrite, he prides himself on his political connections and influence, which he has amassed through decades of corruption. In the play, he recollects with pride his role in having Ethel Rosenberg executed for espionage . As he lies alone in the hospital, dying of AIDS, the ghost of Rosenberg sings him a Yiddish lullaby and then brings him the news that the New York State Bar Association has just disbarred him, destroying his final hope of dying as a lawyer. The play ends on a note of optimism. After his friends procure for him a stash of AZT , in 1990 Prior is still alive and is managing to live with AIDS. With his friends, he looks at the statue of an angel in Bethesda Fountain and talks of the legend of the original fountain, and how it will flow again some day. The play is deliberately performed so that the moments requiring special effects often show their theatricality. Most of the actors play multiple characters ( eg, the actor playing Prior's nurse also appears as the Angel). There are heavy Biblical references and references to American society , as well as some fantastical scenes including voyages to Antarctica and Heaven , as well as key events happening in San Francisco and at Bethesda Fountain in Central Park .

上演
天使在美国:千禧年降临 2017 National Theatre版
National Theatre 英语 English
导演: Marianne Elliott 编剧: Tony Kushner 演员: Andrew Garfield (as Prior Walter) / Rusell Tovey (as Joe Pitt) / Denise Gough (as Harper Pitt) / James McArdle (as Louis Ironson) / Nathan Lane (as Roy Cohn)
天使在美国:千禧年降临 2020 Comédie-Française 版
Comédie-Française 法语 French
导演: Arnaud Desplechin 编剧: Tony Kushner 演员: Clément Hervieu-Léger (as Prior Walter) / Michel Vuillermoz (as Roy Cohn) / Jennifer Decker (as Harper Pitt) / Christophe Montenez (as Joe Pitt)
天使在美国:千禧年降临 1991年版
1991-05
导演: David Esbjornson 编剧: Tony Kushner
天使在美国:千禧年降临 1992年版
1992-01-23
导演: Declan Donnellan 编剧: Tony Kushner 演员: Henry Goodman / Nick Reding / Felicity Montagu / Marcus D'Amico / Sean Chapman
天使在美国:千禧年降临 1993年伦敦版
1993-11-20 Royal National Theatre
导演: Declan Donnellan 编剧: Tony Kushner 演员: David Schofield (as Cohn) / Daniel Craig (as Joe) / Clare Holman (as Harper) / Jason Isaacs (as Louis) / Joseph Mydell (as Belize)
天使在美国:千禧年降临 1993年百老汇版
1993-11-23 Walter Kerr Theatre
导演: George C. Wolfe 编剧: Tony Kushner 演员: Ron Leibman / Stephen Spinella / Kathleen Chalfant / Marcia Gay Harden / Jeffrey Wright
天使在美国:千禧年降临 2010年版
2010-10-29 Signature Theatre 英语 English
导演: Michael Greif 编剧: Tony Kushner 演员: Zachary Quinto (as Louis) / Billy Porter (as Belize) / Bill Heck (as Joe) / Zoe Kazan (as Harper) / Robin Bartlett (as Hannah)
天使在美国:千禧年降临 2013英国国家剧院版
2013-11-01 The National Theatre 英语 English
导演: Catherine Ashmore 编剧: Tony Kushner 演员: Dominic Cooper / Andrew Scott
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