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Dramatizes the devastating problem of AIDS among African and African-American women - a timely topic and an egregiously overlooked problem that is only now getting the attention of the international media. Living worlds apart are Nia a 19 year old in South Central, L.A. and Abigail Murambe a married newsreader with the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation in Harare. Abigail is pregnant with her second child and having marital problems, both women, suffering from HIV two young women experience a kaleidoscopic weekend of darkly comic life changing revelations. The play takes place over a 48-hour period in which both protagonists, living continents apart, discover that the men in their lives have infected them with HIV. Each goes on a personal journey, encountering various characters and cultural bias, as they try to come to grips with their diagnosis and sense of isolation.

Creatives/Company

Author(s): Danai Gurira, Nikkole Salter