The drama of AIDS
Subtitle: my lasting connections with two plays that survived the plague
By: Michael Kearns ; foreword by Tim Miller.
Publisher: Heinemann
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Portsmouth, NH
Language: eng
Number of pages: 113
ISBN-13: 9780325021591
Subjects: Kearns, Michael, -- 1950-; Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography; Actors -- United States -- Biography; AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- Biography; AIDS activists -- United States -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Description: Michael Kearns weaves a remarkable tapestry that casts the theatre as a metaphor for how life unfolds in ways that are both beautiful and theatrical. Kearns shares the real, uncensored story of his intimate relationship with two plays-James Carroll Pickett's "Dream Man" and Robert Chesley's "Jerker"--A relationship that has spanned more than twenty years. First and foremost, Kearns writes about the theatre and its transformative powers. His is a book about putting on a show; it is a book about loss and love; it is a book about being an openly gay and publicly HIV-positive artist during the years when AIDS has unabatedly affected the world stage, literally and figuratively. It is a book about the brotherhood that the theatre engenders. The Drama of AIDS is also about immortality; how memory lives in the theatre and can be gracefully passed from one generation to another. About life in the theatre-and life, period.--Cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.