@STRAZ CENTER
SUNDAY, MAY 20, 2:00PM
FERGUSON HALL
Straz Center for the Performing Arts
presents
A G A Y F A N T A S I A ON
N AT I O N A L T H E M E S
by Tony Kushner
Part Two: Perestroika
Part Two: Perestroika
Synopsis
by Ryan Hopkinson
America in the mid-1980s. In the midst of the AIDS crisis and a conservative Reagan
administration, New Yorkers grapple with life and death, love and sex, heaven and hell.
Andrew Gar eld (Silence, Hacksaw Ridge) plays Prior Walter along with a cast including
Denise Gough (People, Places and Things), Nathan Lane (The Producers), James McArdle
(Star Wars: The Force Awakens) and Russell Tovey (The Pass).
This new staging of Tony Kushner’s multi-award winning two-part play, Angels in America:
A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, is directed by Olivier and Tony® award-winning director
Marianne Elliott (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and War Horse). Part
One: Millennium Approaches was rst performed at the National Theatre in 1992 and was
followed by Part Two: Perestroika the following year.
Running time: Part Two: about 4 hours and 20 minutes with two 15-minute intermissions.
Cast
Hannah Pitt / Aleksii Antedilluvianovich Prelapsarianov /
Henry / Ethel Rosenberg / The Angel Asiatica .............................................SUSAN BROWN
Prior Walter ...........................................................................................ANDREW GARFIELD
Harper Pitt / The Angel Africanii .................................................................DENISE GOUGH
Roy M Cohn / The Angel Antarctica .............................................................NATHAN LANE
The Angel / The Recorded Voice of Orrin /
The Mother, Mormon Centre / Emily ...........................................AMANDA LAWRENCE
Louis Ironson / The Angel Australia ........................................................ JAMES McARDLE
Belize / Mr Lies / The Recorded Voice of Caleb /
The Angel Oceania ........................................................NATHAN STEWART- JARRETT
Joseph Pitt / The Father, Mormon Centre / The Angel Europa ................ RUSSELL TOVEY
Angel Shadows ..................STUART ANGELL, LAURA CALDOW, CLAIRE LAMBERT,
BECKY NAMGAUDS, STAN WEST, LEWIS WILKINS
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