Angels in America Lesson Plan

In the first scene of Act Five when Prior battles the Angel, how would you approach staging this scene? What elements of performance, staging, or technical elements would you use to make sure that the scene was taken as the "life-and-death struggle" Kushner indicates it should be in the stage directions?

In his note on production, Kushner warns against allowing the magical sceneds to be played with silliness lest they lose their power. In order for this scene to be taken seriously it is critical to draw inspiration from the stage directions Kushner provides and use dramatic lights and overwhelming sound effects as well as fight choreography that truly demonstrates an...