, the breathtaking six-and-a-half-hour theatrical epic by playwright Matthew Lopez, word came that the R&B artist was launching an exclusive New York party that purported to re-imagine '80s/'90s dance clubs as if the popular HIV prophylaxis drug "had been invented in that era.
New York references -- BAM, Film Forum, The Strand -- abound. And no one groans quite like New Yorkers upon hearing that the play's central figure, thirty-something mensch Eric Glass , pays an obscenely low $575 for a rent-controlled three-bedroom on the Upper West Side that's been in his family for decades. "I love the audience's reaction to that! It's so great," laughs Lopez.
If that decision by a Latinx writer – to focus on the lives of largely white , largely male , mostly educated and well-off , gay characters who talk books and do brunch – has come under question in some quarters, Lopez, who's previously tackled the Puerto Rican experience and anti-queer violence and trauma in past works, says, "I have written my story." He adds that it was never his goal to write a definitive depiction of the totality of the global LGBTQ experience.
There are also utterly engrossing monologues. Walter tells a prosaic, extended tale of meeting Henry, the evolution of their relationship and his own calling to provide comfort during the AIDS crisis. Adam's graphic, erotic account of a gang bang in a Prague bathhouse is intended to arouse, just as an HIV scare that follows is meant to jolt. Late in Part Two, Toby has a reckoning with himself, the lies he's created and the people he's hurt.
needs to be seen by the youth as well, in the interest of the intergenerational understanding the play promotes.
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