Prior
Walter
ANgels
IN
America
The Synopsis
Angels In America
Prior Walter (Andrew Garfield), a 30-year-old New Yorker, is the protagonist of Angels in America, Tony Kushner’s story about a gay man whose life partner, Louis, abandons him when he becomes ill with AIDS. Prior changes from a man dying of AIDS to a man living with AIDS by the transcendent powers of visions by an angels. Along the process, a number of romantic and platonic relationships develop and end, and the play’s final social structure consists of a loose group of multigenerational, interracial, and LGBT friends and Prior wishing for “more life”. The play is a 7 and a half hours tour de force.
Date:
July 20, 2017
Length:
Play in 2 parts; 7, 5 hoursWriters:
Tony KushnerDirector:
Marianne Elliott & Bridget CaldwellStarring:
Andrew Garfield, Nathan Lane, James McArdle, Denise Gough, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett and more ...The Reviews
What they say
"...Garfield excel(s) in Kushner's surreal epic.."
"...Garfield as Prior excellently combines a head-tossing, period-style camp with the desperate anguish of a man craving love in his hour of need..."
"...a magnificent Mr. Garfield..."
"...the flat-out fabulous revival of Tony Kushner’s “Angels in America"... with a top-flight cast led by Andrew Garfield and Nathan Lane in career-high performances..."
"...the performance of his career..."
"... Andrew Garfield, giving the performance of his career – greater and more consequential than Spider-Man ...Garfield begins his riveting... ascent, really"
