‘Angels’ continues at Epic Theatre

Don Fowler
Posted 6/19/14

Epic Theatre continues its production of Tony Kushner’s epic “Angels in America” with Part Two: Perestroika, continuing the saga of the AIDS epidemic in the mid 1980s.

Roy Cohn (R. Bobby) is …

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‘Angels’ continues at Epic Theatre

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Epic Theatre continues its production of Tony Kushner’s epic “Angels in America” with Part Two: Perestroika, continuing the saga of the AIDS epidemic in the mid 1980s.

Roy Cohn (R. Bobby) is in the hospital, dying of the dreaded disease, hallucinating over visits from Ethel Rosenberg (Mary Paolino) and obtaining AZT illegally.

Prior (Michael Puppi) is fighting the disease while trying to cope with his partner bailing out on him. Meanwhile, Louis (Kevin Broccoli) is involved in an on-again/off-again relationship with Republican/Mormon/ Married man Joe Pitt (C.T. Larsen), while his wife (Melanie Stone) is being cared for by her mother-in-law (Joan Batting). Victor Terry plays two characters who both have deep relationships.

Part 2 gets much more dreamlike while the characters drift in and out of each other’s lives. Reality and fantasy become interchangeable.

While the play deals head on with the AIDS crisis, it wanders into political and personal relationship areas, as each of the characters searches for his or her own identity and meaning in life.

The theme of loneliness hovers above them. As they see themselves approaching Judgment Day, they wonder if even God (if there is a God) has abandoned them.

The nearly three-hour production moves swiftly and smoothly in short vignettes with the characters intermingling, until its final, moving conclusion.

Go to www.epictheatreri.org for times and dates and check out their one-day performance of Parts 1 and 2, with a break for something to eat at the café or nearby restaurants on Cranston’s Rolfe St.

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