Angels In America: Millenium Approaches

I'm going to save any grand analysis until next week, when I complete the pair of plays. (Though I wouldn't be breath-holding if I were you.)

When I first encountered Angels In America, it was a contemporary play ... now, it's become a period piece. I suppose it always was, in it's looking back at the still-fresh Regan years. Still, when a surrealistic bit of stage business is when a character "has a computer terminal in his briefcase" I can't help but smile.

Though it's become dated in some ways, particularly in it's Millennial expectation. But Roy Cohn's monologue about how he's not a homosexual because he has power or Martin Heller's on the future of the Regan Revolution simply gain more power with time.