FCA Performance presents

Angels In America

Thursday 29 – Saturday 31 October

Written by Tony Kushner
A play in 2 parts performed by graduating FCA Performance students
Part one: “Millennium Approaches” directed by Tim Maddock
Part two: “Perestroika” directed by Christopher Ryan

It is an ethical obligation to look for hope; it is an ethical obligation not to despair.
Tony Kushner

A play in two parts, the internationally acclaimed and iconic Angels in America, subtitled, A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, is set in New York City in the mid eighties during the Reagan administration, and just as the AIDS epidemic started to peak. It is widely regarded as a landmark work of theatre as well as a significant meditation on gay life, politics and religion in America.

Epic in scope, Angels unfolds through multiple, often simultaneous storylines that invoke the fantastical and the political through the story of two couples whose relationships are disintegrating: a gay couple grappling with AIDS and a closeted Mormon lawyer and his drug addicted wife. Other characters include the real-life right-wing lawyer, Roy Cohn and a steel winged angel.

Angels in America plays out against a familiar backdrop of political greed, religious conservatism and sexual politics, viewed from different characters perspectives. Dazzling and kaleidoscopic Angels has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for drama and the Antoinette Perry (Tony) Award for best play.

Born in New York in 1956, Tony Kushner is an award-winning American playwright and screenplay writer, renowned for the creation of compelling theatre that inspires and challenges through a combination of startling images and language, charisma, humor and seriousness. In 2008 he won the inaugural Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award (US $200,000). Currently he is working on his second, much anticipated film with Steven Spielberg, based on the life of Abraham Lincoln.

Directors Tim Maddock (“Millennium Approaches”) and Christopher Ryan (“Perestroika”) both bring extensive experience as directors and theatre-makers to this new staging of a landmark production. Their distinctive but complementary styles of theatre-making promise audiences an exciting night of theatre.

Dinner break: 8 – 8.45pm. Patrons are advised to bring a picnic dinner

Thursday 29 – Saturday 31 October

Part 1 @ 6pm; Part 2 @ 8.45pm

PACT Theatre, 107 Railway Parade, Erskineville 2043

TICKETS HAVE SOLD OUT!

Parts 1 AND 2: $30 full, $25 conc., $20.00 FCA students
Parts 1 OR 2: $25 full, $20 Conc. & $18 FCA students
Parts 1 AND 2: $25 both parts (Groups - 10 or more)

Bookings: MCA Tix: 1300 306 776 or http://www.mca-tix.com.au

Credit card and booking fees apply