Angels in America | Perestroika: Act I

Perestroika: Act I, scene 1
The second part of Angels in America begins in Moscow at the Soviet Kremlin, where Aleksii Antedilluvianovich Prelapsarianov, the world's oldest living Bolshevik, is delivering a passionate speech about the need for a practical political theory to guide his country. Near the end of his oration, a great crashing sound is heard, and the scene changes to reveal the tableau at the end of Millennium Approaches: Prior cowering in his bed with the Angel of America hovering in the air above him. Once again she tells him, "The Messenger has...

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