By Michelle Hines, University Relations
Contact: (336) 334-5371
Posted 8-20-09
GREENSBORO, N.C. – UNCG Theatre opens its 2009-10 season with Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, “Angels in America, Part One: The Millennium Approaches.”
“Angels” runs Sept. 30-Oct. 8 in Taylor Theatre.
While the play – which examines the impact of AIDS in America – is three hours long, it keeps audiences spellbound, says Jim Fisher, head of the Department of Theatre and “Angels” director.
“It’s one of those plays that involves you,” Fisher says. “The audience is always ready for more.”
Fisher, who has published two books on Kushner’s work, last staged “Angels” 15 years ago as a faculty member at Wabash College in Indiana.
“I think it’s time for the next generation to have a look at it and reevaluate it,” he says. “The play is historical, written during the Reagan era at the height of the AIDS epidemic.”
Fisher isn’t looking to replicate the Wabash production at UNCG but to generate fresh ideas and pull original performances out of his cast.
“There are certain moments that stand out as having worked very effectively,” he says, “but you have a different cast and different designers. The goal is not to get an actor to do what another actor did last time. The goal is to encourage them be as fresh and original as possible.”
Show times are: Sept. 30 and Oct. 1, 2, 3, 6, 7 and 8, 7 p.m.; Oct. 4, 2 p.m.
Tickets are $15 for adults; $12 for senior citizens and students; $9 for groups of 10 or more and UNCG Alumni; and $7 for UNCG students. Contact the University Box Office at (336) 334-4849 or http://boxoffice.uncg.edu.
Taylor Theatre is located on the UNCG campus near the corner of Tate and Spring Garden streets. Free parking is available behind the Weatherspoon Art Museum on the corner of Tate and Spring Garden on weekends and after 5 p.m. on weeknights.
