Study Guide

Angels in America, Part Two: Perestroika Act 5, Scene 10

By Tony Kushner

Act 5, Scene 10

The same night, split scene.
Louis and Prior are still on stage.
Joe sits alone in his apartment.
Harper stares out the window of a jumbo jet. She tells us she's on her way to San Francisco.
She goes on to say that she just imagined that the plane flew up into ozone layer for a moment, and that she saw how torn and pathetic it looked.
Harper then describes how she saw millions of souls rising from the earth. The souls linked hands and filled the holes in the ozone layer.
"Nothing's lost forever. In the world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead. At least I think that's so," Harper tells us (5.10.2).