Angels in America | Angels in America

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Author: Tony Kushner
First Published: 1992
Type of Work: Play
Type of Plot: Political
Time of Work: Mid-1985 to 1990
Setting: New York City
Genres: Drama, Problem play
Subjects: New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Gay men, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Sex or sexuality, New York City, 1980’s, Death or dying, 1990’s, AIDS, Terminal illness or terminally ill, Diseases, Angels, Management
Locales: New York, NY

Prior Walter, a thirty-one-year-old man with AIDS. When his illness becomes serious, he is abandoned by his lover, Louis Ironson. A member of a very old American and British family, he is chosen by the Angels to become a prophet and tell humankind to stop changing and progressing, to give up trying to answer impossible questions. After wrestling with the Angel, Prior is allowed to visit heaven, where he tells the angelic counsel that he will not be their prophet and that humankind cannot stop striving. He asks the Angels to let him live, for no matter how...

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