Tony Kushner, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of Angels in
America, reunites with longtime collaborator and Public Theater
artistic director Oskar Eustis (White Noise) in a scorching new
version of his first play, the prescient 1985 masterwork suggesting
the possibility of the Reagan counterrevolution eventually giving rise
to American fascism. Agnes, an actress in Weimar Germany, and her
cadre of passionate, progressive friends, are torn between protest,
escape, and survival as the world they knew crumbles around them. Her
story is interrupted by an American woman enraged by the cruelty of
the Reagan administration, and a new character, grappling with the
anxiety, distraction, hope, and hopelessness of an artist facing the
once unthinkable rise of authoritarianism in modern America.
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