In this article, Claudia Barnett reviews how the middle space in the realm of the dead can be the representation of the Purgatory, a place where people who suffer from AIDS and the ghosts from the play occupies. “In ‘Angels in America’, the two characters who see ghosts suffer from AIDS, themselves occupying a kind of middle space. While some see their visions as fever-, medication-, or stress-induced, both Prior and Roy are, in fact, sanctified by their proximity to death, and the liminal “space” of AIDS functions as a metaphor for Purgatory throughout the play” (472). Claudia Barnett serves as a playwright to different theatres like Stage Left Theatre, Tennessee Repertory Theatre, and Venus Theatre. Because of her background with playwrights,
