Angels Fall

by Lanford Wilson

Book by Wilson, Lanford

Genres: Plays, Theatre

102 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1983

About the author

Lanford Wilson was an American playwright, considered one of the founders of the Off-Off-Broadway theater movement. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1980, was elected in 2001 to the Theater Hall of Fame, and in 2004 was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Reviews

[Bobby Sullivan · Rating 2 out of 5]

90% of this play is pointless. There's some meat toward the end, but really, what little payoff there is isn't worth it.

[Jojo · Rating 2 out of 5]

Honestly don't much feel like summarizing but I'll try to give a brief one: basically a group of people wind up stuck in this church as there has been a nuclear leak and they can't leave the area. These people include a professor on the verge of a nervous breakdown (and his much younger wife), a tennis player accompanied with an art gallery owner and then we have the priest and his protege/foster son. The foster son who is Indian/Native American is named Don and he is training to become a doctor but he's also now decided to go off with some research team. The tennis player is also nervous about his upcoming tournament as he always seems to get a bad draw but finds out this time around it's a pretty decent one. Anyway eventually the roads are open and they all leave.
So yeah, I don't know. I didn't really care for this one. Nothing much happens and the characters are just a bit of a bore...overall, meh. Wasn't a fan.
Grade: D+

[Scott]

Written in the early 1980s at a time period of increased concerns about nuclear war and nuclear energy waste, Wilson again brings us a collection of wounded people seeking solace at the same time accepting that life is not likely to change for the better for them.

[Isaac Timm · Rating 4 out of 5]

I very good two act play, I was confused by the chaos of first act, but that was point, characters thrown into each others drama by a unreal situation. Short by very satisfying. I will be reading more Lanford Wilson. But I have a question, why the obsession with tennis pros? Do contemporary play-writes only watch tennis?

[Robert · Rating 3 out of 5]

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