Moorpark College is proud to announce its fall performances of Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Part One Millennium Approaches. Running Oct 9-19 at 8pm with Sunday matinees at 2 pm. TKTS: Save 20% order online.
Please be advised that this production is intended for mature audiences only and contains
- Graphic depictions of illness
- Staged violence
- Flickering light
- Discussions of addiction, homophobia, antisemitism, racism, and pregnancy loss
- Explicit conversations related to AIDS/HIV
- Cursing
- A simulated gay sexual encounter
Run Time: Approximately 3 hours with 2 intermissions
Angels in America is a definitive work of the AIDS pandemic that ran rampant in the 1980’s. Prior, a gay man living in New York City, contracts the disease. His partner, Louis, struggles with this diagnosis: abandoning Prior and exploring another relationship with a married man. As Prior becomes more ill, an angel visits who informs him he has been chosen as a prophet with a message for all humanity. The unconventional cast includes an orthodox Jewish Rabbi, an imaginary travel agent, a medieval farmer, an Inuit and Ethel Rosenberg. Angels in America explores many themes such as “the other,” LGBTQ culture, religion, addiction and mortality.
