angels

Are angels assistants? Angels appear at the end of Amerika; they are extras who act as angels so are really actors but on this occasion have stuck-on-wings and stand on boxes which are hidden by their long robes; they play trumpets but not in harmony. For WB they have precursors: the trapeze artist's manager and the guardian who 'steps away lightly' while escorting the fratricidist . Neither of these have the qualities of assistants; they convey no cryptic messages; they lack names like Arthur and Jeremiah; they don't complete frenzied, repeated actions (eg furious reading) like students. They are 'saved' like the other Nature Theatre actors, playing their own previous lives as roles; acting as angels is a further role-to celebrate the Theatre.
Assistants have no personal qualities being like expressionless waiters; students are restless souls; angels have the quality of doleful witnesses or escorts with or without wings; the fratricide's escort might have had wings; the Nature Theatre angels might have been real.