Tony Kushner’s epic play, now revived-handsomely, majestically, pretty near perfectly-on Broadway in a transfer of London’s National Theatre production, directed brilliantly by Marianne Elliott, is not calculated to inspire the kind of anger that the more lean and polemical The Normal Heart, by Larry Kramer, does.īut the anger re-ignites: the emotional and political weave of Kushner’s writing and characters is immaculately provocative of both head and heart. There was so much human loss, so much lost potential, and so much cruelty and stupidity. Leaving the new Broadway production of Angels in America a week ago, in fact in the eight days since, there has been a familiar, very old and deep-veined, ready-to-be-reignited anger inside this reviewer: the anger at so many thousands of gay lives lost back in the 1980s, when not only HIV and AIDS cut their untreatable, deadly swathe through our community, but also anger that awful assault was compounded by so much ignorance and bigotry.
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