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The Normal Heart is a largely autobiographical play by Larry Kramer. It focuses on the rise of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in New York City between 1981 and 1984, as seen through the eyes of writer/activist Ned Weeks, the gay founder of a prominent HIV advocacy group.
Based on playwright Larry Kramer’s own experiences founding the Gay Men’s Health Crisis in New York in the 1980s, The Normal Heart follows Ned Weeks, a reluctant leader but furious activist, as he campaigns for awareness, and tends to his own friends and lovers who are dying all around him.
Produced to acclaim in New York, London and Los Angeles, the play centers on Ned Weeks, a gay activist enraged at the indifference of public officials and the gay community. While trying to save the world from itself, Ned confronts the personal toll of AIDS when his lover dies of the disease.
Larry Kramer's groundbreaking play The Normal Heart tells the story of the 1980s American AIDS crisis and the activists who paved the way for LGBTQ+ rights: ...
May 27, 2020 · The story of his 18 months with GMHC form the basis of his other masterpiece, The Normal Heart, an autobiographical play originally staged at the Public Theatre in 1985.
May 17, 2011 · When it premiered in 1985, Larry Kramer's play The Normal Heart seemed ripped from the headlines. A thinly veiled autobiographical work, it dealt with the early days of the AIDS crisis and...
http://www.playbill.com/video Larry Kramer's groundbreaking drama about "a city in denial" during thebeginning of the AIDS epidemic finally receives a Broadw...
