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In the winter of 1991, a typewritten draft of 'Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes' arrived at the Eureka Theatre in San Francisco, its pages stained with coffee rings and marginalia in red ink, arguing with itself about prophecy, Reaganism, and the ethics of divine abandonment. This wasn’t just theater; it was a civic intervention staged in real time as AIDS deaths surged and Congress debated the Defense of Marriage Act. Kushner fused Talmudic debate, Mormon theology, Roy Cohn’s courtroom transcripts, and the hallucinatory logic of fever dreams into a two-part epic that redefined how American drama could hold grief, irony, and hope in the same breath. His characters don’t resolve, they accrue contradictions: Prior Walter’s angelic visions coexist with his opportunistic rent strikes; Harper’s Valium-fueled fantasies expose structural misogyny while refusing to be reduced to symptom. The play’s enduring force lies not in its diagnosis but in its stubborn, lyrical insistence that justice must be imagined before it can be built.
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