{"id":66914,"date":"2006-04-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uris-department-of-theatre-to-present-angels-in-america-part-1-millennium-approaches\/"},"modified":"2006-04-03T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-03T00:00:00","slug":"uris-department-of-theatre-to-present-angels-in-america-part-1-millennium-approaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2006\/04\/uris-department-of-theatre-to-present-angels-in-america-part-1-millennium-approaches\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Department of Theatre to present Angels in America, Part 1, Millennium Approaches"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. — April 3, 2006 — Why is the 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Department of Theatre choosing to present Tony Kushner\u2019s Pulitzer Prize, Tony-Award winning play, Angels In America, Part I, Millennium Approaches, at this time in history? asks Bryna Wortman who will direct the play. \u201cBecause it is a theatrical extravaganza creating and embracing real people in real relationships, their dreams, hallucinations, and fantasies; ancestral and cosmological influences and historical, political, societal, and metaphysical reverberations. Perhaps, too, because we need and crave angels in America, not necessarily gorgeous steel-gray-winged emissaries from heaven but their embodiment here on earth: caring, concerned, compassionate individuals who understand and live lives of tolerance and inclusion to create and sustain a diverse society, \u201d she responds. \u201cTony Kushner\u2019s play is extraordinary. We hope you, too, will enjoy and be challenged by our production,\u201d comments Wortman.<\/p>\n


\nAngels in America, Part I will be performed in the Robert E. Will Theatre in 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Fine Arts Center on the Kingston campus from April 20 through 22 and 26 through 29 at 7:30 p.m. and April 23, at 3 p.m. A panel discussion, \u201cApproaching the Millennium\u201d will take place after the April 23, 3 p.m. performance. <\/p>\n


\nIn the epic play, two couples live through the modern equivalent of the plague: the AIDS crisis in 1985-86. Each confronts him\/herself to discover a true identity, to learn how denial of the truth can undermine ourselves and those we love. The play ultimately is about love on every level.<\/p>\n


\nThe two couples evolve from white Anglo-Saxon Protestant, Jewish and Mormon traditions. They are the descendants of long-ago difficult journeys. They, with the other characters, take their own journeys from darkness to enlightenment. People are not always who they seem to be as 21 characters enliven the stage in bold, vivid colors with great depth and touching vulnerability.<\/p>\n


\nFeatured with characters Prior, Louis, Harper and Joe, are Attorney Roy Cohn, a character of Shakespearean proportions; his nemesis Ethel Rosenberg; Belize, former drag queen, now nurse; Mr. Lies, imaginary travel agent; Nurse Emily and Doctor Henry struggling with the human toll and government restrictions of the AIDS crisis; Hannah, a repressed mother; a homeless street lady from the South Bronx; Prior I and II from the 13th and 17th centuries and their multiple interactions in their journeys toward light and redemption. To include as many student actors as possible, the 21 characters are each played by one actor of the same gender.<\/p>\n


\nThe play\u2019s scenic design is created by Dan Bilodeau; costume design by Marilyn Salvatore, lighting design by Jeffrey Whitsett, sound design by Peter Nabut. <\/p>\n


\nTickets are $14 for general admission, $10 seniors, 溏心vlog免费B站 faculty and staff and $8 students. For reservations, call the Theatre Box Office at 401-874-5843. For more information, call 401-874-5921 or for group sales, 401-874-2712. <\/p>\n


\nThe April 21 performance at 7:30 p.m. is dedicated to benefit AIDS Project Rhode Island and coordinated with the 12th Annual 溏心vlog免费B站 Symposium on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning Issues. Tickets for this performance will be $16 general, $12 seniors, 溏心vlog免费B站 faculty and staff and $10 for students. Two dollars from each ticket will be donated to AIDS Project Rhode Island. A post-performance panel discussion will relate play themes to AIDS issues in the state. For more information click on www.uri.edu\/glbt\/symposium.htm or call Andrew Winters at 401-874-2894.<\/p>\n


\nMembers of the cast, their characters, and hometowns follow:<\/p>\n


\nCast, Character\t, Hometown<\/p>\n


\nAhmed Bharoocha, Rabbi, North Smithfield

\nKyle Blanchette, Man in Park, Coventry

\nPatrick Bosworth, Prior #1, Narragansett

\nTina Bowes, Sister Ella Chapter, Auburn, Mass.

\nCarlos Campbell, Belize, N. Kingstown

\nErin Condry, Hannah Pitt, Warwick\/Middletown

\nJordan Eastwood, Louis, Saunderstown

\nSeth Finkle, Mr. Lies, Gloversville, N.Y.

\nJed Hancock-Brainerd, Prior, Newport

\nHaley Hanson, Angel, Grass Valley, Calif.

\nJeff Hibbert, Martin, E. Providence

\nLeah Kolb, S.B. Woman, Sacramento, Calif.

\nAlex McLeod, Prior #2, Warwick

\nGillienne Nadeau, Harper, Warwick

\nElise Petrarca, Ethel Rosenberg, Coventry

\nPatrick Poole, Dr. Henry, Pemberton, N.Y.

\nRyan Romanowski, Joe Pitt, Clintondale, NY

\nJoe Short, Roy, South Kingstown

\nAnna Tobias, Emily, Warwick<\/p>\n


\nPictured above

\n溏心vlog免费B站 students Jed Hancock-Brainerd of Newport and Haley Hanson of Grass Valley, Calif. appear in 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s production of Angels in America, Part I. 溏心vlog免费B站 Photo by Randy Osga.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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