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Title: This ain't no angel, it's a turkey!
Review: If you were one of not a few people who sat through the stage production of Angels in America trying to squelch the little voice that kept crying out, "But the emperor is butt nekkid!," let it be silent no longer. This book is irrefutable evidence that it is so. Shorn of the splashy production gimmicks and bereft of actors who can rise above the banal material, this play is revealed as a sophmoric, sentimental and slipshod piece of politically correct feel-goodism. Both the dialogue and the handling of the plot are embarrassingly awkward. The play reads as an exercise in adolescent hysteria masquerading as theatre. Despite my own experiences and attitudes regarding AIDS, I have to say that this bloated and pretentious vehicle would never have seen the light of day if it hadn't been about AIDS.
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