Elegies for Angels, Punks, and Raging Queens

Full Length Musical / 20m, 11f

A celebration of lives lost to AIDS told in free verse monologues with a blues, jazz and rock score.

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Elegies for Angels, Punks, and Raging Queens

by Bill Russell Janet Hood

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Elegies for Angels, Punks, and Raging Queens

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20m, 11f

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A celebration of lives lost to AIDS told in free verse monologues with a blues, jazz and rock score, this piece is designed to include the community in a theatrical response to the AIDS crisis. It is often performed as a benefit for fund raising and consciousness raising.

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Reviews

"Dramatic." - Spectator

"Immensely powerful.... The songs are uniformly good; the final song is sensational." - Financial Times

"Bursts with humor, rage and hope." - Backstage

"Generates a feeling of love, humanity and common cause that sends you out glowing." - Glasgow Herald

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Angels, Punks, and Raging Queens