What Political Theatre changed the world?
One play that changed our society is 'Angels in America' it's a play in two parts by American playwright Tony Kushner. The work won numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Tony Award for Best Play, and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play.
Angels in America is about: America in the mid-1980s. In the midst of the AIDS crisis and a conservative Reagan administration, New Yorkers grapple with life and death, love and sex, heaven and hell.
Angels in America is often treated like a documentary about AIDS and the NYC gay community in the '80s, and while that's true to an extent, it's also a statement about the promise and contradictions of the United States of America. At its heart of the play is the personal trouble caused by the failure of that political promise of equal rights—not just the freedom to pursue happiness, but the state's responsibility to protect that pursuit.
This play changed the way society thought about AIDS and homosexuality
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