The AIDS Plays Project
Queer Plays from Trailblazing Writers Lost to HIV/AIDS
$53.97
- Paperback
528 pages
- Release Date
7 January 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: | 528 |
| Release Date: | 7 January 2027 |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 156mm |
| Series: | Methuen Drama Play Collections |
About The Author
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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