Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Angels in America by Tony Kushner

8 reviews

fieldofhats's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Grief, Death, Hate crime, Drug use, Infidelity, and Homophobia

mrmarshall591's review

emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I saw this on Broadway two years ago today, and when I heard my brother had read it in class, I got so excited... he leant me his copy to read and I am so glad I did. Such a beautiful and powerful play, that I am lucky to have seen live and read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Sexual content, Blood, Excrement, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Homophobia, Gore, Toxic relationship, Terminal illness, and Racism

Moderate: Racial slurs and Toxic friendship

clarathromycin's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Gore, Outing, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Infidelity, Medical content, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Antisemitism, Chronic illness, Abandonment, Blood, Body horror, Classism, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual content, and Vomit

Moderate: Cancer and Sexual harassment

remimicha's review

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Homophobia, Medical trauma, Body horror, Mental illness, Outing, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual content, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Genocide, Infidelity, Grief, Racial slurs, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Terminal illness, and Violence

Moderate: Blood, Body horror, Classism, Physical abuse, Vomit, Addiction, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Antisemitism, and Excrement

burnt_milk's review against another edition

challenging dark sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

Wild. Absolutely wild. These characters are rich and so messy. The way Roy Cohn's character is written in particular is horrifyingly resonant re: the last few years. I adore Belize and love how awful and pretentious and selfish Louis is, and how sneakingly real he feels. I can't pretend to understand half of Perestroika LOL but this play remains an integral part of AIDS history for a reason. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Terminal illness, Addiction, Death, and Homophobia

Moderate: Blood, Infidelity, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, and Racism

Minor: Body shaming

petrichorandcoffee's review

challenging emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

This is a beautiful work and I am grateful to have read it. I hope to see it one day live. It is difficult, intense, devastating, brilliant, interdisciplinary, thoughtful, and informative. Kushner is clearly a genius. This work is gorgeous and wide-reaching. If it were written as a play set in present day I wouldn't have rated it 5 stars, but given how frightening, unsure, and seemingly hopeless the 80s must have felt for queer men in thr AIDS epidemic, I definitely feel it is a 5 star play.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Blood

Moderate: Sexual content

allygator's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

 This is hands-down my favorite play of all time. I love every single thing about it. This is the play that made me fall in love with the art of theatre and inspires the art I create now. Watching Andrew Garfield play Prior Walter completely shifted what I thought acting could be, and to this day is a level of performance I aspire to achieve.
In case you couldn't know, this is not an objective review at all. A lot of who I am now has been made by the impact this play had on me, so I'm incredibly biased when it comes down to reviewing it.
The best thing about this play is how the characters are written. They all are exceptionally flawed, and it makes them feel like people right out of the streets of New York. There are times when reading this when I get so honestly angry at the characters because they're so flawed and make such terrible decisions. It's real and very well written, but it makes me feel a lot of things.
I do think that as incredible as this script is, nothing comes even remotely close to the experience of watching a filmed or live production of it. Seriously, if you can, take two days and watch this. You won't regret it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Homophobia, Terminal illness, Addiction, Drug use, Chronic illness, Infidelity, Medical content, Racial slurs, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Blood, Excrement, Grief, Violence, Vomit, and Sexual content

Minor: Cancer, Pregnancy, and Dementia

addyruth17's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

There is a point one can reach when one has so many thoughts and feelings that the mind fails to comprehend any of them, and one can do nothing but stare at the wall with brain buzzing.  I reached this point, perhaps twice, while reading this play.  Immaculate scenes, delectable wording, and a heap of challenging topics. Gives the audience just enough to understanding something new, even if they don't quite understand what is happening in the scene itself.  So surreal it simply must be about reality.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cursing, Death, Homophobia, Infidelity, Medical content, Racism, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Drug use, Addiction, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Religious bigotry, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Cancer, Biphobia, Excrement, and Racial slurs