ANGELS IN AMERICA Begins Performances Next Month at Heath Ledger Theatre

Black Swan State Theatre Company are proud to present the WA Premiere of one of the most successful plays of the modern era, Angels in America, Part I Millennium Approaches by Tony Kushner in the Heath Ledger Theatre, State Theatre Centre of WA from Saturday 28 May to Sunday 19 June 2016.

Lauded by critics and beloved by fans, this production has received nearly every theatre award worth receiving, including the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play - twice.

Set in 1985 New York City, this ground-breaking drama follows Prior Walter, a young gay man diagnosed with AIDS and abandoned by his lover. Desperate and alone, he is visited in a dream by an angel that brands him a prophet and tasks him with saving humanity from themselves.

As if this wasn't a big enough burden, Walter must navigate a mine?eld of the fantastic and the mundane, including Mormons, a communist hating homophobic lawyer and a drug-addicted housewife, as well as his own feelings of abandonment and disenchantment. It is a heart-warming story of trial and tribulation, of joy and sorrow, and of extreme bravery against overwhelming plight,

By arrangement with Hal Leonard Australia Pty Ltd, on behalf of Josef Weinberger London

DIRECTOR: Kate Cherry

CAST INCLUDES: Adam Booth (Blithe Spirit), Stuart Halusz (Dinner), Felicity McKay (Venus in Fur), Jo Morris (Blithe Spirit), Will O'Mahony (Glengarry Glen Ross), Kenneth Ransom (Glengarry Glen Ross), Toni Scanlan (Water Rats) and John Stanton (Death of a Salesman).

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