- Wrapping up ANGELS IN AMERICA in #wny11 today. #
- @_waterman on Kushner's ANGELS IN AMERICA: PERESTROIKA today. #wny11 #
- Opening music: Talking Heads, 1978-79 "Thank you for Sending Me an Angel," "Cities," and "Heaven." #wny11 #
- @_waterman starting off with Linda Hutcheon's idea of "historiographic metafiction." #wny11 #
- Kushner's play asking: "Do we make history or are we made by it"? How are we conditioned by the stories we tell about the past? #wny11 #
- Hutcheon's book: A POETICS OF POSTMODERNISM http://amzn.to/gcgiYe #wny11 #
- Showing clip from Mike Nichols's adaptation: Roy, Joe, and Ethel. MILLENNIUM APPROACHES, Act 3, Scene 5. #wny11 #
- @_waterman on pre- (building Zion) and post-millennialism (apocalypse). Play's Harper is caught between the two. #wny11 #
- Interesting account of post-millennialism by Stephanie Hendricks: http://amzn.to/hAs34y #wny11 #
- @waterman on 4 differrent angels invoked by play. 1st: Angel of History from Walter Benjamin,
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