The Normal Heart And The Destiny Of Me

Download or read book The Normal Heart and The Destiny of Me written by Larry Kramer and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two award-winning plays from the legendary activist and dramatist who has been called “one of the best writers of our times.” (Lambda Book Report) 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 put his life in the hands of the very doctor he has been denouncing. The Normal Heart was selected as one of the 100 Greatest Plays of the Twentieth Century by the Royal National Theatre of Great Britain The Destiny of Me was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, a double Obie winner, and the recipient of the Lucille Lortel Award for Best Play of the Year. Introduction by Tony Kushner. “Wired with anger, electric with rage. . . . Powerful stuff.” —The Boston Globe

Download or read book The Normal Heart written by Larry Kramer and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1985 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dramatizes the onset of the AIDS epidemic in New York City, the agonizing fight to get political and social recognition of it's problems, and the toll exacted on private lives. 2 acts, 16 scenes, 13 men, 1 woman, 1 setting.

Download or read book Faggots written by Larry Kramer and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty-nine-year-old Fred Lemish had always hoped that love would find him by the age of forty, and with four days to go, he begins a compulsive, yet humorous, search for that love and commitment, in a classic novel of gay life. Reprint.

Download or read book His Lady written by T. D. Jakes and published by Berkley Hardcover. This book was released on 1999 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A preacher with the rare ability to keep his eyes on the heavens and both feet planted firmly on earth, T. D. Jakes has brought comfort and encouragement to millions of women. Now the author of Woman, Thou Art Loosed! and other cherished volumes shares this collection of God's promises to women, inspired by his most recent bestselling book, The Lady, Her Lover, and Her Lord. With these simple but profound words, Bishop Jakes helps us remember that God offers us a source of powerful strength, deep wisdom, and enduring joy -- all that we need to confront our trials and overcome our obstacles. Divided into sections that address such everyday concerns as anger, anxiety, temptation, and despair, His Lady is a companion for every woman who wants to walk through each day -- even the most difficult ones -- side by side with her Lord.

Download or read book Part of My Heart written by Mike Sundy and published by . This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A simple and heartfelt children's book about a baby heart and where it came from. This sweet story is perfect for explaining to preschool children the emotional truth of how a new baby is made and what they mean to the parents. Also makes a charming Valentine's Day or new baby gift.

Download or read book The Theater of Tony Kushner written by James Fisher and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Download or read book Mainstream AIDS Theatre, the Media, and Gay Civil Rights written by Jacob Juntunen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-01-29 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates the political potential of mainstream theatre in the US at the end of the twentieth century, tracing ideological change over time in the reception of US mainstream plays taking HIV/AIDS as their topic from 1985 to 2000. This is the first study to combine the topics of the politics of performance, LGBT theatre, and mainstream theatre’s political potential, a juxtaposition that shows how radical ideas become mainstream, that is, how the dominant ideology changes. Using materialist semiotics and extensive archival research, Juntunen delineates the cultural history of four pivotal productions from that period—Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart (1985), Tony Kushner’s Angels in America (1992), Jonathan Larson’s Rent (1996), and Moises Kaufman’s The Laramie Project (2000). Examining the connection between AIDS, mainstream theatre, and the media reveals key systems at work in ideological change over time during a deadly epidemic whose effects changed the nation forever. Employing media theory alongside nationalism studies and utilizing dozens of reviews for each case study, the volume demonstrates that reviews are valuable evidence of how a production was hailed by society’s ideological gatekeepers. Mixing this new use of reviews alongside textual analysis and material study—such as the theaters’ locations, architectures, merchandise, program notes, and advertising—creates an uncommonly rich description of these productions and their ideological effects. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of theatre, politics, media studies, queer theory, and US history, and to those with an interest in gay civil rights, one of the most successful social movements of the late twentieth century.