My Response To Tony Kushner's Angels In America

I chose to do Angels in America because I had heard of it before, and as I was searching through the Tony Award’s for the Best Play’s, looking for something impressive to perform, I saw a familiar name and decided I would give it a go. Originally I wanted to do a piece by Prior, but as I read the play I liked the idea of trying out Roy’s character more, so I changed it.

My goal was to capture what I imagine was Tony Kushner’s idea of the character and portray him correctly, and also to determine whether I could play a confronting, very stubborn man such as Roy.
I did some research on Roy’s character and found he was based off the actual Roy Cohn an American Attorney, well known for his prominent role in The Rosenberg Trials. So I knew it …show more content…
Finally as for the audience I didn’t work to much with sadly which was a mistake because I was unsure of how I would deliver the monologue until late into practice. I wanted to experiment with different staging but I struggled with the idea of anything but end stage and wasn’t brave enough to try something difficult, which I regret because I need to be challenging myself. So I didn’t engage the audience to much, which could be bad, but I was hoping that the character would keep the audience enthralled, and the monologue didn’t call for much interaction as Roy is speaking to one other character. As such I decided I would engage one audience member, Lisa, to be my Henry, and I put a forth wall up between the rest. I’m unsure kosher but I thought it would be effective, and the Lisa’s reactions made me believe that she felt the effect but I am unsure whether or not the rest of the audience felt the same. Also I wasn’t honestly expecting the audience to laugh as much as they did because I thought the monologue was funny but not laugh out loud funny, but that could have just been my reading