Angels in America

Question 1

Kushner

Answer 1

“I have to be able to think large to think small”

“I find repugnant the idea of the eternal and unchanging”

Question 2

Hogan

Answer 2

AiA “explodes barriers and builds connections”
Creates “queer urban environmental aesthetics of equity”
“linking environment and gay issues…destruction of the planet is also destruction of vulnerable citizens”

Question 3

Lipshitz

Answer 3

‘Queer re-performance of Jewish texts’
Battle between Angel and Prior as ‘self-aware re-performance’
Struggle as ‘life-enabling act’- hence Prior’s success vs Joe’s failure

Question 4

Lioi

Answer 4

‘Theurgic theatre’ - Jewish idea that human actions can influence God
‘dedication to dialectic’
‘has more in common with the medieval passion plays…it is sacramental, it enacts the secrets it narrates, and effects real change in the willing participant’