Thirty-nine-year-old Fred Lemish had always hoped that love would find him by the age of forty, and with four days to go, he begins a compulsive, yet humorous, search for that love and commitment, in a classic novel of gay life. Reprint.
Thirty-nine-year-old Fred Lemish had always hoped that love would find him by the age of forty, and with four days to go, he begins a compulsive, yet ...
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 play, The Destiny of Me, is the stirring story of an AIDS activist forced to put his life in the hands of the very doctor he has been denouncing.
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 mov...
Larry Kramer has been described by Susan Sontag as one of America's most valuable troublemakers. As Frank Rich writes in his Foreword to this new collection of writings for the screen and stage, his plays are almost journalistic in their observation of the fine-grained documentary details of life . . . in drama that may well prove timeless. The title work, the Oscar-nominated screenplay for Women in Love, is a movie as sensuous as anything you've probably ever seen on film (The New York Times). The screenplay is accompanied by Kramer's reflections on the history of the production, sure to be...
Larry Kramer has been described by Susan Sontag as one of America's most valuable troublemakers. As Frank Rich writes in his Foreword to this new coll...
With the recent explosion of high-profile court cases and staggering jury awards, America's justice system has moved to the forefront of our nation's consciousness. Yet while the average citizen is bombarded with information about a few sensational cases--such as the multi-million dollar damages awarded a woman who burned herself with McDonald's coffee-- most Americans are unaware of the truly dramatic transformation our courts and judicial system have undergone over the past three decades, and of the need to reform the system to adapt to that transformation.
In Reforming the...
With the recent explosion of high-profile court cases and staggering jury awards, America's justice system has moved to the forefront of our nation...
A searing drama about public and private indifference to the AIDS plague and one man's lonely fight to awaken the world to the crisis. Produced to acclaim in New York, London and Los Angeles, The Normal Heart follows Ned Weeks, a gay activist enraged at the indifference of public officials and the gay community. While trying to save the world from itself, he confronts the personal toll of AIDS when his lover dies of the disease.
"An angry, unremitting and gripping piece of political theatre."-New York...
Full Length, Drama
Characters: 8 male, 1 female
Unit set.
A searing drama about public and private indifference to the AIDS plague and...
Renowned playwright and author Larry Kramer's stunning work of imagination and courage reimagines American history from John Wilkes Booth to Joseph McCarthy in this long-awaited, devastating satire
Forty years in the making, The American People sets forth Larry Kramer's vision of his homeland. As the founder of ACT UP and the author of Faggots and The Normal Heart, Kramer has decisively affected American lives and letters. Here he reimagines our history. This is the story of one nation under a plague, contaminated by greed, hate, and disease and host to...
Renowned playwright and author Larry Kramer's stunning work of imagination and courage reimagines American history from John Wilkes Booth to Jos...
