| Tony Kushner's play, Angels in America, signified a turning point in American theatre. Since its release fifteen years ago it has gained national popularity and critical acclaim. With scholars analyzing Angels from a variety of perspectives the play quickly became the canonical queer text. However, the homo-glossic readings of the play have turned the "queer text" into a homonormative one. Focusing on the bisexual encounters Hannah and Prior experience in various spaces, I offer a bisexual queer reading of Angels by utilizing Edward Soja's concept of thirdspace and Sara Ahmed's notion of queer phenomenology. These theories help to build a bisexual theory that enables me to queer the sexual orientation and spatial interactions in Angels. I focus on the bisexual encounters Hannah and Prior experience with the Angel and the spaces in which they occur. |
