The Missouri State University Theatre and Dance Department presents Tony Kushner's controversial-- and critically acclaimed--Angels in America, Part 1: The Millennium Approaches, directed by Sarah Wiggin, in Craig Hall Coger Theatre for tonight and Saturday Nov.11-12 at 7:30pm and Sunday Nov.13 at 2:30pm. It's 1985, and both the "Reagan revolution" and the AIDS epidemic are well underway. In New York City, the relationships of two couples are unraveling. Prior discovers that he has AIDS. Louis, his partner, soon abandons him and takes up with Joe, whose wife Harper has retreated to a Valium-induced, hallucinogenic state. Both the couples' personal bonds and the society in which they live are fractured by greed, selfishness, prejudice, cowardice and lies. Another character is Joe's boss Roy Cohn--yes, a fictionalized version of the Roy Cohn, chief counsel to Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s. (Cohn himself was diagnosed with AIDS in 1984 and died in 1986. This is the role played by
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