Showing posts with label angels. Show all posts
Showing posts with label angels. Show all posts

Thursday, March 8, 2012

Reviews of Angels in America (film & play)

 I've wanted to do a blog with links to reviews of Angels for a while.  I think that it will help you answer question #2 on the subjective midterm.

First, let's start with reviews of the HBO production that we saw.

This review focuses on the second half of Angels:

How might an author at an LBTQ site view this production?

Frank Rich of the NY Times reviews the production here:

Queer critic and novelist Dale Peck is more critical:

Let's look at some reviews of theatrical productions:

We'll start with the Broadway revival from 2010:


What was it like to view the original productions?


What is it like to view other productions in the US?

This blog from Chicago is too interesting to pass up:

Is this play performed outside the US?

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Thursday, February 23, 2012

More Links for Angels in America

And what a lot of links there are!

Let's start with the HBO Angels in America itself.




The individual scenes we looked at are below.  

Here we see Roy Cohn with his nemesis Ethel Rosenberg:



We'll jump back to see Roy Cohn intimidating his doctor:


And then there are the scenes with the Angel:


The scene above is from Eastern Michigan University's production of Angels in America.  

What follows are the trailers and scenes from theatrical versions of Angels.

First is Signature Theatre's recent revival:

Next is the Theatre Downtown's.  This company is from Birmingham, AL.

Here is Indiana University's production:

These are various scenes from Signature Theatre's production:

Finally, these are the videos of interviews with playwright Tony Kushner, actor Zachary Quinto, director George C. Wolfe, and more!








Enjoy!

Below is a picture of the "real' Antarctica!

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Thursday, February 24, 2011

Links in EN 230 -- Angels, Living Out, & M. Butterfly

 
We have tickets for the performance of Living Out on Thursday, March 3!  The performance is in the Parilla Performing Arts Center at the south end of campus.  The play will begin at 8 pm and continue until 10:15 pm with one intermission.  Therefore, we will meet at HU 115 at 7 pm, have a mini-class on M. Butterfly, and walk over to the Parilla Center.

Here are some links about Living Out.  The first review is of a 2004 performance at Bethesda's Round House Theater.


A year earlier the play was performed in NYC:


More recently, Portland Oregon's Actors' Conservatory performed the play:


Below are some links to videos that we saw in class tonight:

The HBO version begins here:


Here we see Prior & Harper's encounter:


Here is a scene with Al Pacino as Roy Cohn.  (Remember him as Richard III?)


These two videos are from the 2010 Broadway revival of Angels:



Note that the second video includes scenes from the second part of Angels.

Ah, time & energy paid off!  Here are some scenes from other stage versions.  The first is from a community college in New Jersey:


Next is a trailer from the University of North Carolina's professional theater:


I'm not sure where this clip is from, but the comments praise it:


I'll close with a few clips from M. Butterfly.

Yes, yes, in the 1990s, there was a movie version starring Jeremy Irons and John Lone:


For an interview with playwright David Henry Hwang, see this video:


This recent version was performed at Minneapolis' Guthrie Theater:


Here are clips from Puccini's opera, Madame Butterfly.  Gallimard and Song are referring to this opera.




Enjoy!
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Saturday, February 19, 2011

Links for 2/24 -- Angels in America



Yikes!  I didn't leave room for anything for Angels in America.  

First, here is some background about AIDS, starting with one of the first news reports in 1982:


Below are scenes from the 1993 film based on Randy Shilts' book And the Band Played On, which investigated our response to AIDS and argued for us to make an effort to search for a cure for the disease:




You may also need background about the Reagan Revolution.  The picture of Reagan's 1980 campaign (a stop in South Carolina) below is from Wikipedia.


Below is a link to CNN anchor John King's interview with conservative activist Newt Gingrich:


You might also like to see CNN's page on Reagan:

This president was also controversial:

The picture below of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg is from MSNBC.  It was taken during their trial for espionage.


Their trial provoked some response in the public.

For information about Roy Cohn, the Rosenbergs, and their historical context, see these sites:




The picture above is from the Guardian.  It is actually of the operatic version of the play, which premiered in 2004.


Finally, here are a few clips from scenes of Angels in America, starting with the trailer for the HBO movie:


Here is a scene with Al Pacino as Roy Cohn.  (Remember him as Richard III?)


Now these versions are from the stage.  The first is a recent Broadway revival.



The actor who played Prior is interviewed here:


Oskar Eustis, the man who commissioned Angels, speaks here:


Here you may watch an interview with the production's director, Michael Greif:


Playwright Tony Kushner speaks here:


I do want you to look at scenes from other productions!



Enjoy!

Dr. Szlyk


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