Manda's Reviews > Angels in America

I absolutely love this play. It explores the beginning of the AIDS epidemic in the 80s, particularly its effect on the gay community. But you don’t have to be a gay man with AIDS living in 1985 to relate to it. This play reaches out on a very basic human level. It’s about dealing with loss, love, sickness, regret, hope, politics, betrayal, sex, religion, death, confusion, hate…it’s about facing yourself and trying to deal with what you find there.

Angels is hands down my favorite play. It’s written in 2 parts: Millenium Approaches and Perestroika and is somewhere around 7 hours when performed back-to-back.

Seriously, if I could set the curriculum for a literature class, Angels in America would be top priority. I think it’s an important play and that everyone should grab a copy of it and just read the hell out of it.