[[{“type”:“media”,“view_mode”:“media_large”,“fid”:null,“attributes”:{“class”:“media-image alignright size-full wp-image-2569”,“typeof”:“foaf:Image”,“style”:“”,“width”:“100”,“height”:“100”,“title”:“”,“alt”:“Valley News”}}]]When the AIDS epidemic was raging in the United States in the mid-1980s, none of the actors in the current Dartmouth Department of Theater production of Angels in America had been born, writes the Valley News. None of the Dartmouth students in the show can remember “when an AIDS diagnosis was synonymous with imminent death,” the newspaper reports. And yet the theme of Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play resonates with the young stars of the show.

“I’ve been around death,” actor Andrew McKee ’15 tells the Valley News, “but not this constant sense of dying before your time.”

Department of Theater Senior Lecturer Carol Dunne, who is directing the production, tells the newspaper that the Department of Theater chose Kushner’s play “to educate the students and enlighten the audience, that AIDS is not over by any means, and being out as a homosexual is not necessarily any easier.”

Read the full story, published 11/1/12 in the Valley News.