In different ways, all eight of the characters in Angels do that, but Prior probably does it more than any other character. “Somebody is getting cut open on the altar for the rest of us to sit safely and partake. “On some terrible level, theater has never progressed past its origin as a blood sport - as a sacrificial ritual,” says Tony Kushner, Angels’ lauded playwright. Related | Andrew Garfield is Among the Angels For His Broadway Return He’s the consummately tormented, AIDS-afflicted gay man at the center of Angels in America, a 1980s-set, two-part, seven-plus-hour play that covers political, spiritual, sexual, medical, and metaphysical ground while swirling around the plights of its lead. For an actor, Prior Walter might be one of the most daunting characters ever written.
