National Theatre Live ‘Angels in America’ Part One opens Sept. 9
The Rehoboth Beach Film Society announces the next play in the series of National Theatre Live screenings. This groundbreaking project presents the best of British theater live from the London stage on film to cinemas across the UK and around the world.
In this play set in the mid-1980s, while America was 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. 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 Marianne Elliott. Part One: "Millennium Approaches" was first performed at the National Theatre in 1992 and was followed by Part Two: "Perestroika" the following year.
In the first part, the audience meets Louis and Prior and Harper and Joe, two couples whose relationships are on the rocks: the former because of Prior's AIDS diagnosis and Louis's inability to cope with illness, the latter because of Joe's closeted homosexuality and Harper's incessant fears and hallucinations, as well as her addiction to painkillers. As these couples' trials unfold, the play introduces a handful of other colorful characters. Using them as mouthpieces, Kushner characteristically dives deeply into political and intellectual themes while generating a vital, living, breathing story, and populating it with characters, both real and fictional, whom audience members come to both love and abhor.
Andrew Garfield plays Prior Walter along with a cast including Denise Gough, Nathan Lane, James McArdle and Russell Tovey.
Part One: "Millennium Approaches" will be shown in September. Part Two: "Perestroika" will be shown in October.
Screenings of Part One: "Millennium Approaches" will be at 1 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 9; 1 p.m., Monday, Sept. 11; and 6 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 12, at the Cinema Art Theater, 17701 Dartmouth Drive in Dartmouth Plaza behind the Lewes Wawa. Admission for National Theatre Live is $18 for film society members, $20 general admission and $15 for ages 16 and under. Online reservations are encouraged and may be made with MasterCard or VISA.
For more information or to make reservations, go to www.rehobothfilm.com or call 302-645-9095.
