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Almost A Bird Theatre Collective presents
Almost A Bird Theatre Collective presents
Angels in America Part I: Millennium Approaches
Written by Tony Kushner
Directed by Willem Wassenaar
Designed by Daniel Williams
A LIMITED ONE WEEK SEASON @
Downstage Theatre
29 SEP – 6 OCT 2007
Performance
Times: Mon - Thu 6.30pm, Fri & Sat 7.30pm and matinee Sat 6
Oct 2pm
Ticket Prices: $39-$20 and $20 Preview Fri 28
Sep
Bookings: 04 801 6946 or
www.downstage.co.nz
Award winning Almost A Bird
Theatre Collective proudly presents Tony Kushner’s
masterpiece Angels in America Part I: Millennium Approaches
(winner of 1993 Pulitzer Price for best drama and Tony Award
for best play) as part of the 2007 graduation season of Toi
Whakaari: NZ Drama School. Angels in America will be staged
at Downstage Theatre. For the first time in years the
graduates of the national drama school showcase their final
performance outside their own building and in the industry
environment. Catherine Downes: “Angels in America will be
an investment in a new generation of theatre makers and an
example of how the industry can work together with Toi
Whakaari. We are looking forward to being involved with this
exciting, relevant new work.”
The epic play Angels
in America was performed in Wellington for the last time at
Circa Theatre in 1994. This story about a struggling
community is still as provoking, funny and humane for
today’s audiences as it was back then. Director Willem
Wassenaar: “There is no other play than Angels in America
that reflects so deeply the huge identity crisis that we as
the world, a society and as individuals are experiencing at
this very moment.”
Set in New York in the
conservative mid 1980s, Angels in America is a rollercoaster
collision course for a former drag queen diagnosed with
AIDS, his arm chair philosopher lover, a Valium addicted
housewife, her gay Mormon husband and a heavenly host of
Angels. When even God has abandoned his responsibilities and
the Angels are calling out for mortal guidance, the
characters are forced to make their own decisions on
freedom, sexuality, politics and religion in a universe that
is about to change.
www.downstage.co.nz /
www.almostabird.com
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