Season 2 Episode 1: Angels in America, Part I

Tony Kushner packed his play Angels in America with biblical references, including apocalyptic motifs that give structure, urgency, and epic grandeur to the playwright’s sprawling drama about the central tensions in American political and social life. In this episode, we unpack the apocalyptic imagery to understand what Kushner is doing with it.

Works Cited and Consulted

Kushner, Tony. Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia.

Stone, Ken. Queer Commentary and the Hebrew Bible. Bloomsbury: 2002.