Angels in America - Part 1: Millennium Approaches

Though it may have already approached, the Rise Theatre is proud to present Tony Kushner's award-winning play "Angels in America, Part 1: Millennium Approaches". Director Bethwyn Davies provides an inspired new way of looking at this timless masterpiece of contemporary drama.

Focusing on the Reaganomic America of the 1980s, this moving play (subtitled "A Gay Fantasia on National Themes") embraces emerging and established polyvalent sexualities and investigates ideas of community at a time when many believed (and still do)that 'there is no such thing as society' only the laws of the Market. And it puts forward the idea that the only thing worse than lying to others is lying to oneself.

(Also, Part 2 of 'AiA', Perestroika, will form the centrepiece of our 2002/3 season.)

"Never in my life have I seen anything like it." - The Guardian

"A complex and involving story that traces not only the depths of despair but the exhalted peaks of hope.' - NY Times

"Breathtakingly amazing...truly a masterpiece." - Time Magazine