The Normal Heart - Hardcover

Kramer, Larry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0453005063 ISBN 13: 9780453005067

Publisher: Dutton Adult, 1985

Synopsis

Full Length, Drama Characters: 8 male, 1 female Unit set. A searing drama about public and private indifference to the AIDS plague and one man's lonely fight to awaken the world to the crisis. Produced to acclaim in New York, London and Los Angeles, The Normal Heart follows Ned Weeks, a gay activist enraged at the indifference of public officials and the gay community. While trying to save the world from itself, he confronts the personal toll of AIDS when his lover dies of the disease. An angry, unremitting and gripping piece of political theatre.- New York Daily News Like the best social playwrights, Kramer produces a cross fire of life and death energies that illuminate the many issues and create a fierce and moving human drama.- Newsweek

About this title

About the Author

G.E. Lessing (1729-81) wrote three plays in addition to Nathan the Wise (1779): Miss Sara Sampson (1755), based on the novels of Samuel Richardson; Minna von Barnhelm (1767), the first true German comedy; and Emilia Galotti (1772), a middle-class tragedy. Edward Kemp is a freelance writer and director. Earlier work includes a two-part adaptation of The Mysteries for the RSC, published by Nick Hern Books and available from TCG. He is literary manager at Chichester Festival Theatre.

Edition details

• Publisher: Dutton Adult
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0453005063
• ISBN 13: 9780453005067
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 123