Just back from opening night of my friend's play "Angels in America." For American readers, yes, there was an HBO version of this directed by Mike Nichols. I saw it on stage in Parramatta at the Riverside Theatre and it was brilliant. Set design was compact, versatile and transcendent. Fast-paced, good cast (no bias) highlighted the intelligent writing of the play.
Strange to think that this all happened while I was alive. I remember the Reagan years and yet had forgotten this key piece of American culture - the denial of the existence and tragedy of AIDS. So much of Reagonomics has been discussed of late and Bush's emulation or attempted emulation of the Reagan values masked the very real, very fearful and very tragic isolation in which many homosexuals of the 1980's suffered and confronted against their wishes the disease which takes so many lives.
For those here in Australia, it is theatre worth the trek out West.
http://www.riversideparramatta.com.au/performance.asp?pID=847
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