149 - Angels in America by Tony Kushner

Another Book on the Shelf

In Episode 149, Gen and Jette continue to celebrate Pride Month with Tony Kushner's award-winning play, Angels in America. We had to cut ourselves off eventually because we could talk about this play forever.
Show Notes
We went to see this play last December at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre in Toronto. It was produced by That Theatre Company and directed by Craig Pike. (Yes, Torontonians, Craig Pike of Craig's Cookies.) It was phenomenal and we knew we had to read the play and dedicate an episode to it.
The play runs about 7 hours long in total and is technically two separate plays: Millennium Approaches and Perestroika.
HBO made a mini series, adapted for the screen by Tony Kushner, in 2003.
In 2017, The National Theatre produced a revival starring Andrew Garfield and Nathan Lane and it eventually went to Broadway.
This play has won a lot of awards and it's very clear why. We'll definitely make it a point to see any production of this that we can get to.
This spring, Gen went to see another 7-hour long play called The Inheritance, put on by Canadian Stage Company. It's a reimagining of E.M. Forester's novel Howard's End and also deals with AIDS and being gay in America, but in a contemporary setting that takes place before and after the election of Donald Trump.
Our next episode is our 150th! Appropriately, it is a book club episode. We'll be talking about Jette's pick, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno Garcia.
Other Media Mentioned
The Inheritance by Matthew Lopez
Caroline, or Change
Munich (2005)
Lincoln (2012)
West Side Story (2021)
The Fabelmans (2022)

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