And the political pamphleteering lacks urgency now that HIV is no longer a certain death sentence nor the subject of the same degree of public shame and discrimination. The proliferation of frank AIDS-related art from the past two decades makes some of Kramer’s dialogue seem a little stale. Now, in a markedly different time, the play is currently enjoying a resurgence in popularity, first with a Tony Award–winning Broadway engagement earlier this year, and now in a moving new production at Buddies in Bad Times directed by Joel Greenberg.Īdmittedly, the play is starting to show its age after 25 years. One of the first plays about the new and poorly understood HIV/AIDS epidemic, its fierce activist rhetoric polarized audiences, gay and straight-but everyone agreed on its indelible impact. Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart hit a lot of nerves when it premiered off Broadway in 1985. Jeff Miller and Jonathan Wilson in The Normal Heart (Image: John Karastamatis)
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