The Delicate Ecology of Delusions
✮✮✮✮ 1/2 Tony Kushner's Angels in American National Theatre | London directed by Marianne Elliott Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Angels In America is a theatrical marathon, and elicits much the same effect: breathlessness, exhaustion, light-headedness – the sense that the experience has enriched you, quasi-mystically, beyond the sum of its parts. Like a 26-mile slog it leaves you a little closer to death and yet inexplicably more alive. In Marianne Elliott’s cornucopia
Family Squabbles and Trade Unionism
✮✮✮ 1/2 Tony Kushner's iHo Hampstead Theatre | London directed by Michael Boyd Tony Kushner's first play at the Hampstead Theatre since Slavs! is a cacophony of ideas with several dramatic high points, but the action is spread too thinly over three and a half hours with two intervals. This was too much for several people sitting near me who made it through the first two parts but did not return to their seats after the second interval. They missed out because the ending bring
