Angels in America | Millennium Approaches: Act III

Millennium Approaches: Act III, scene 1
Alone in his apartment, Prior wakes from a nightmare to find an apparition dressed in the clothes of a thirteenth-century British squire seated next to his bed. The ghost introduces himself as another Prior Walter (Prior 1)—the fifth in the Walter family line. He is soon joined by another Prior Walter (Prior 2), a ghost from seventeenth-century London. Both men died young from plagues—as it seems Prior will as well—and they have been sent to prepare the way for "the messenger." They call Prior a prophet and seer, chant...

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