Angels in America | Perestroika: Act III

Perestroika: Act III, scene 1
It is February, 1986, a week later. Roy is in his hospital room, trying to manage his disbarment hearing by telephone, with the ghost of Ethel Rosenberg standing a deathwatch over him. Belize appears with Roy's prescribed medication and learns the conniving lawyer has secured his own private stash of AZT—more than he could use in fifty years. Roy refuses to share any of the coveted drugs. He and Belize exchange racial insults, and Belize simply takes a few bottles, leaving Roy alone with Ethel and convulsed with pain.

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