<p>We saw ANGELS IN AMERICA on the national tour and there was indeed full frontal male nudity. We found the play challenging and gripping. </p>
<p>I think nudity on stage is different than nudity on screen. On stage, the actor has a direct relationship with the audience. We are all in the same room, and we can appreciate (through our attention, through our applause) the vulnerability the actor shows in stripping off. </p>
<p>On screen, it becomes a bit more prurient on the audience’s part, I think. We are detached from the actor, we start paying attention to the body as a body (for comparison purposes, for sexual arousal, whatever), and not to the person inside the body. Not to mention the fact that the scene can now be copied and disseminated all over the world with the touch of a few keys!</p>
<p>I would not be crazy about my kids performing nude onstage, but I would understand it. But I would caution them against on camera nudity… (Not that I have much to worry about – my D is incredibly modest, overly so for an actress, and I find myself in the awkward position, for a mom, of suggesting that she buy clothes that are a bit <em>more</em>, as she puts it, “slutty”!)</p>
<p>Great discussion here…</p>