19 jan 2015 Angels in The New Yorker
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Terwijl de meeste kranten en tijdschriften hun lijstjes met favoriete voorstellingen, films en boeken aan het einde van het jaar bekend maken, doet The New Yorker dit aan het begin van het jaar. Op de eerste plaats - als de voorstelling die het meest relevant was in 2014 voor theater criticus
Hilton Als - staat Angels in America van TA.
The revival of Angels in America, at BAM
Directed by Ivo van Hove and featuring members of his Toneelgroep Amsterdam. With a soundtrack comprised of old recordings by David Bowie, contemporary music's greatest dramatic singer, and with a minimalist stage designed by Jan Versweyveld, van Hove relieved "Angels in America" of its
pyrotechnics, and got to the heart of its theatre by treating this circus of human behavior as a real and surreal thing made even stranger by a terrible time in human history--the age of AIDS. At certain points during the piece, old ghostly film footage of downtown New York and Fire Island,
where pre-AIDS homosexual men gathered (van Hove himself is openly gay), would play on a screen at the back of the stage, like something recalled in a moment of indescribable agony, and sweet sadness. Those were the days. And the nights.
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