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The Destiny of Me
by
Larry Kramer
The Normal Heart, set during the early years of the AIDS epidemic, is the impassioned indictment of a society that allowed the plague to happen, a moving denunciation of the ignorance and fear that helped kill an entire generation. It has been produced and taught all over the world. Its companion play, The Destiny of Me, is the stirring story of an AIDS activist forced to...more
Paperback, 144 pages
Published
August 1st 1993
by Plume
(first published 1993)
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I think it's trying a little too hard to be The Glass Menagerie. Kramer says as much in his introduction. The Normal Heart was autobiographical, too, but the story there was more focused on the present and more compelling because of it.
This play is okay, but it felt heavy with self-pitying and the over-sentimentality of deathbed lessons learned.
Brought me to a better understanding of myself. What more could I ask for?
This play was the follow up to the Normal Heart even though it was written many years later. It is excellent. and I would love to direct both these plays someday on opposite nights.He is such a strong personality-Kramer that people dont always agree with him. He was the founder of the New york Gay mens healtch center. I admire him even though I might not always agree with him.
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Larry Kramer (born June 25, 1935) is an American playwright, author, public health advocate and gay rights activist. He was nominated for an Academy Award, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and was twice a recipient of an Obie Award. In response to the AIDS crisis he founded Gay Men's Health Crisis, which became the largest organization of its kind in the world. He wrote The Normal Heart, the...more
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