Angels in America

This blog is dedicated to HBO's Angels in America mini series Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes is a play written by Tony Kushner. It's divided into two parts: ::Millennium Approaches ::Perestroika The 2003 HBO Mini Series has six 1hr episodes (or two 3hr parts) and it stars: Ben Shenkman...Louis Ironson Justin Kirk...Prior Walter / Letherman in Park Meryl Streep...Hannah Pitt / Ethel Rosenberg / The Rabbi Patrick Wilson...Joe Pitt Mary-Louise Parker...Harper Pitt Jeffrey Wright...Belize / Mr. Lies Al Pacino...Roy Cohn Emma Thompson...Nurse Emily / The Angel / Homeless Woman James Cromwell...Roy's Doctor

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“I don’t understand why I’m not dead. When your heart breaks, you should die. But there’s still the rest of you. There’s your breasts and your genitals… They’re amazingly stupid, like babies or faithful dogs. They don’t get it, they just want him. Want him.” - Angels in America

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“Who was it, Baudrillard? One of those French guys said New York is the city of the Apocalypse. It has a kind of real and unreal feeling. It’s also a city of towers*. It points upward, so obviously it has this feeling of vision, of hallucination almost. There’s something in this story - that kind of dream-like thing of seeing the same actors playing different people, giving you the opportunity to think about the similarities. What is the connection between a nurse who keeps telling a patient, ‘stay put,’ and an angel who’s saying the same thing. Why is Emma [Thompson] playing both of these parts? I love that, and that’s what you get in theatre that you secretly don’t get in movies. I think there’s a value to the power of [an] almost overwhelmingly convincing illusion that’s sometimes both working and not working at the same time, and I think that’s what theatre is about. You believe it and don’t believe it simultaneously.”  

- Tony Kushner, on why the play is set in New York [x]

*”It was written long before 9/11 happened, but it is a play with an apocalyptic sensibility.”

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Harper: When you pray, what do you pray for?

Joe: I pray for God to crush me, break me up into little pieces and start all over again. 

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Harper Pitt: I'm gonna have a baby.

Joe Pitt: Liar!

Harper Pitt: You liar!... A baby born addicted to pills. A baby who does not dream but who hallucinates, who stares up at us with big mirror eyes and who does not know who we are.

Joe Pitt: Are you really?

Harper Pitt: No... Yes... No... Yes... Get away from me. Now we both have a secret.

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Just wanted to say I love your tumblr! Please keep up the awesome Angels In America posts ;)

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