The AIDS Plays Project
Queer Plays from Trailblazing Writers Lost to HIV/AIDS
$54.11
- Paperback
488 pages
- Release Date
4 March 2027
Summary
Trailblazing, visionary, and too often neglected – this collection honours and celebrates seven queer playwrights from America, Ireland, and Britain whose lives were cut short by HIV/AIDS.
Curated by The AIDS Plays Project, and edited by its director, Alastair Curtis, this anthology revives seven plays written by pioneering queer playwrights, providing a platform that restores and mends the link between queer artists and their audiences that has largely been severed b…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781350588066 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1350588067 |
| Author: | Alastair Curtis, Charles Ludlam, James Kirkwood, Harry Kondoleon, Robert Chesley, Colm O. Clubhan, Alan Bowne, George Whitmore |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Imprint: | Methuen Drama |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 488 |
| Release Date: | 4 March 2027 |
| Dimensions: | 156mm x 234mm |
| Series: | Methuen Drama Play Collections |
Critics Review
Play by play, The AIDS Plays Project is reshaping the queer theatrical canon. * Matthew López, author of The Inheritance *
An impressive act of queer archaeology giving new life to shows written by playwrights who died of AIDS. Over the last two years, this patient DIY project has begun to expand the queer theatrical canon, re-staging stories from a lost generation with regular seasons of rehearsed readings. * Exeunt *
A loving act of preservation that doubles as a radical act of rediscovery. By staging queer work that has unfairly slipped into obscurity — and in some cases, never been performed before - Curtis creates an ongoing dialogue between today’s LGBTQ+ community and an earlier generation that was decimated by HIV/AIDS. * AnOther *
Aside from allowing a queer audience to connect with voices from the past that they might never have otherwise encountered, The AIDS Plays Project guards against complacency. * The Stage *
Each discovery is like opening a jewel box, the playwrights’ personal and professional histories revealed one glimmering gem at a time. * Queerty *
Alastair Curtis
Alastair Curtis is the founder of The AIDS Plays Project, a campaign to revive and republish the theatrical works of writers whose lives were cut short by HIV/AIDS. The project has been featured in Interview, The Face, Hero, The Evening Standard, and The Financial Times, who wrote, “play by play, The AIDS Plays Project is reshaping the queer theatrical canon.” His writing has been published in Frieze, Prospect, The Economist, AnOther, and The Observer, while his debut short film, Sweetheart, set in an eighteenth-century Molly House, premiered at Sundance 2025. He studied English at University College London and the University of Oxford.
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