The Normal Heart, set during the early years of the AIDS epidemic, is the impassioned indictment of a society that allowed the plague to happen, a moving denunciation of the ignorance and fear that helped kill an entire generation. It has been produced and taught all over the world. Its companion...
I have had this book for ages, since college, probably, though I don't remember at all how I acquired it. I do know it has sat on my shelves for many a year. I'm sure I felt there was no urgency to read another AIDS book after I've read Paul Monette and And the Band Played On. And once I'd gotten...
"We have reached a verdict, your honor. This man's heart is deficient. He loves, but his love is worth nothing.""Angels in America" is a two-part play written by Tony Kushner based around the lives of numerous homosexual men, the ladies in their lives and their brushes with celestial beings, ghos...
Night. Prior in his underwear alone on the floor in the hallway outside his bedroom; he is much worse. PRIOR: Louis, Louis, please wake up, oh God. (Louis runs in.) PRIOR: I think something horrible is wrong with me I can’t breathe . . . LOUIS (Starting to exit): I’m calling the ambulance. PRIOR:...
December 1985. Aleksii Antedilluvianovich Prelapsarianov, the World’s Oldest Living Bolshevik. (Lights up on Prelapsarianov at a podium before a great red flag. He is unimaginably old and totally blind.) ALEKSII ANTEDILLUVIANOVICH PRELAPSARIANOV: The Great Question before us is: Are we doomed? Th...