METHOD MACHINE, Rochester’s premiere performance and art company, will stage both parts of Angels In America by Tony Kushner in 2012 on the Nextstage at Geva Theater Center. Angels in America, Part 1: Millennium Approaches will be presented in March and Angels in America, Part 2: Perestroika will be presented in the Fall. Also, in the Fall, Parts 1 & 2 will be presented on one day—a 7-hour theatrical marathon with a dinner break!
Angels in America is set in late 1985 and early 1986, as the first wave of the AIDS epidemic in America is escalating and Ronald Reagan has been elected to a second term in the White House. This Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play tells the story of a young gay man with AIDS and his frightened, unfaithful lover; a closeted Mormon lawyer and his valium-addicted wife; the infamous New York lawyer Roy Cohn; and a steel-winged, prophecy-bearing angel; as well as the ghost of Ethel Rosenberg, among many others. The lives of these disparate characters intersect, intertwine, collide and are blown apart during a time of heartbreak, reaction and transformation. Ranging from earth to heaven, from the political to the intimate to the visionary and supernatural, Angels in America is an epic exploration of love, justice, identity and theology, of the difficulty, terror and necessity of change.
“We are so excited to be presenting Angels in America,” says Artistic Director David Henderson. “Kushner’s play is the ultimate in modern theater. Great characters, wicked special effects and a message that is vital.” Henderson teams up with company founder Marcy J. Savastano (Harper) and usual suspects Jill Rittinger (the Angel), Judy Molner (Hannah) and Peter Doyle as Roy Cohn. The company will also collaborate with acclaimed international video artist Monica Duncan to create the special effects and video for the production. “Performing at Geva will give us the best environment to attempt some very difficult effects most companies our size would shy away from,” says Henderson. “But we’re not shy.”
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