What is the author's style in Millennium Approaches by Tony Kushner?

Because Millennium Approaches is a play, it is intended to be viewed by an audience instead of read. The perspective is driven by what the author shows to the reader. The author uses split scenes to contrast relationships and make points about events happening in two places at the same time. The reader understands the characters and relationships from the author's sequencing of events and contrasting scenes as well as from the characters' actions and words.

However, unlike many plays, which never get inside the characters' heads because of the enforced third-person perspective of the theater, the author does let the reader inside of Harper's mind and Prior's mind. The reader is able to see Harper's visions and dreams, including her entirely constructed Antarctic dream world, a place made to numb her emotions. The reader also sees within Prior's dreams and visions. The people around Prior don't see his visions. The nurse does not realize she's talking in a foreign tongue. These are only Prior's experiences, but the audience is able to share them.

The play purposefully chooses characters from different backgrounds and perspectives, but all revolving around the gay community in America. Prior is of Anglo-Saxon heritage, a man who is comfortable with being gay and in a long-term relationship with a man he loves. Louis brings a heritage of Jewish guilt and intellectual rationalization to the play, and he seems less comfortable with being gay than Prior is. Joe brings a straight-laced Mormon perspective, while Roy brings a fiercely selfish conservative political view. The play chronicles the clash of these differing perspectives.