A comparison of the two plays angels in america by tony kushner and jerker by Robert Chesley

Jerker and Angels          With each day that goes by, homosexuality continues to gain more acceptance and exposure in society. Through the means of movies, books and plays, a homosexual lifestyle had been shown to society from many gay and non-gay writers. Although in both Jerker and Angels in America AIDS poses a restriction of a gay lifestyle, Jerker accomplishes this restriction by portraying the physical restriction of free love while Angels portrays this as the …

…both gave a great deal to society in revealing and opening up the gay community to society. Work Citied Mann, Emily and David Roessel. Political Stages: plays that shaped a century. Applause Theatre & Cinema Books: New York, 2002. Messerli, Douglas and Mac Wellman. From the Other Side of the Century II: a new American Drama. Sun & Moon P: Los Angeles, 1998. Sternlicht, Sanford. A Reader's Guide to Modern American Drama. Syracuse U P: New York, 2002.