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In the early 1990s, the phenomenal theatrical emergence of Tony Kushner and Angels in America appeared to declare a revitalized potency for the popular political play. The amusing and passionate Angels was unabashedly Shavian—the subtitle, “A Gay Fantasia on National Themes,” directly invoked the Heartbreak House subtitle, “A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes”—and its two-part, seven-hour length both demanded and assumed political fluency from audiences.
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Pressley, N. (2014). Introduction: No Politics, Please, We’re American. In: American Playwriting and the Anti-Political Prejudice. Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137415189_1
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