I stumbled upon an article on NPR where Tony Kushner was interviewed about his play, Angels in America, his motivation at the time, and the lasting impact it has had. When Angels in America premiered in San Francisco in 1991, it was a shock for the time. AIDS during the Reagan years, sex, homosexuality – they were all things that theatre didn’t show. Kushner changed that. He wrote about things that were beginning to greatly affect the world. As Kushner describes it, his time thinking and writing were right on the cusp of changing politics and society, making this a play for its time. It is still incredibly resonant now, and probably will be for decades to come. It’s all about change and adapting and being slightly ahead of your time. As Kushner keeps looking back, I’m sure he will find more and more things that are relevant and before their time as our world continues to adapt and change.
http://www.npr.org/2011/09/13/140438370/angels-in-america-twenty-years-later
