The Normal Heart

T4201198
The first AIDS play (1986). Set in New York in the early 1980's, this powerful, passionate and controversial play was the first to treat seriously the poignant and awesome subject of AIDS. It follows a writer's struggle to break through indifference and hypocrisy surrounding the killer disease and his attempt to draw attention to the plight of gay community in contemporary America.

Author

Larry Kramer

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Archive :: production:T4201198, play:S4382, venue:V374

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Production details

Larry Kramer's passionate and personal accountof the onset of AIDS in New York will be discussed and rehearsed extracts performed. NT2000 - 1985