Just Say No: A Play About a Farce

by Larry Kramer

A satirical play that suggests that much of the public indifference to AIDS is due to hypocrisy on the part of people in high places who are either unacknowledged homosexuals or heterosexuals with unconventional sexual pasts.

Genres: Plays, Theatre

104 pages, Paperback

First published December 31, 1989

About the author

Larry Kramer (born June 25, 1935) was 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 first serious artistic examination of the AIDS crisis. He later founded ACT UP, a protest organization widely credited with having changed public health policy and the public's awareness of HIV and AIDS.[1] "There is no question in my mind that Larry helped change medicine in this country. And he helped change it for the better. In American medicine there are two eras. Before Larry and after Larry," said Dr. Anthony Fauci.[1] Kramer lived in New York City and Connecticut.

Reviews

[Liv Townsend · Rating 3 out of 5]

Conceptually strong satire, but honestly just really bloody hard to follow because of how chaotic the dialogue can be - probably works well on stage and if I'd seen it in the 1980s I would have gone wilddd for the political slagging off being done.

[Jaykumar B · Rating 3 out of 5]

terribly disturbing and funny with a serious bitch-slap on the face!