Angels in America

The legendary Internationaal Theater Amsterdam have been frequest guests at the Edinburgh International Festival over the last decade or so, often bringing over some revered deep cuts that Brit theatre hipsters are liable to have heard of but not actually seen. Ivo van Hove’s monumental five hour production of Tony Kushner’s hallucinatory AIDS epic Angels in America (to be fair, it’s both conventional parts rolled into one) has long has a formidable reputation and now it finally makes its UK debut at the 2026 EIF. It’s a radically minimalist reworking of Kushner’s ‘fantasia’ that centres on two people – former drag queen Prior and vindictive lawyer Roy Cohn – grappling with AIDS diagnoses, all set to a banging David Bowie soundtrack.