Through 8/26: Thu and Sat 7:30 PM, Sun 2 PM, Mon 7:30 PM also Tue 8/21, 7:30 PM, Pride Films and Plays, 4139 N. Political forces that led to countless similar unnecessary deaths. You may wonder if it’s enough for a playwright to ask the audience to feelĪnother grievous AIDS loss without questioning any of the social and Micah Kronlokken as Conigrave and Jude Hansen as Caleo. Leave you retraumatized, especially given the compelling performances of Lived through similar horrors a few decades back, the final 30 minutes may Graham’s perfunctory staging for Prideįilms and Plays, which struggles to create a meaningful stage picture or anīut after HIV rears its horrid head before intermission and both ConigraveĪnd his partner, John Caleo, test positive, the second act finds its focus,Īs we watch the couple negotiate terror, guilt, rage, infidelity, and mostĬruelly, a hard-won devotion that death swiftly destroys.
His putative girlfriend, display even the tiniest unease with his open Reel (did none of Conigrave’s mid-1970s high school classmates, including Scattershot, oddly impersonal, and at time credulity-straining highlights Jock in high school, stumbling upon gay rights activism in college-into a He’s gay in his prepubescent years, falling head over heels for the class
Of the first act, the difficulty arises largely from the surface-skippingīreeziness that turns Conigrave’s first two decades of life-discovering
Reasons that shift halfway through this two-and-a-half-hour show. Tommy Murphy’s 2006 adaptation of Australian actor and writer TimothyĬonigrave’s 1995 coming-of-age memoir is a difficult pill to swallow, for
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