![]() Joe does not know of Roy's illness at this time. Roy is himself deeply closeted, and discovers that he has AIDS. Joe doesn't immediately take the job because he feels he has to check with his Valium-addicted, agoraphobic wife, Harper, who is unwilling to move. Meanwhile, closeted homosexual Mormon and Republican law clerk Joe Pitt is offered a major promotion by his mentor, the McCarthyist lawyer Roy Cohn. As the play and Prior's illness progress, Louis becomes unable to cope and moves out. ![]() As the play opens, Louis Ironson, a neurotic, gay Jew learns his lover, Prior Walter, has AIDS. ![]() Set in New York City in the mid-1980s, Act One of Millennium Approaches introduces us to the central characters. It has been made into both a television miniseries and an opera by Peter Eötvös. Angels in America - Melbourne Theatre CompanyĪngels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes is a play in two parts by American playwright Tony Kushner. ![]()
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