"The Way AIDS Harms Not Only the Afflicted"

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"The Way AIDS Harms Not Only the Afflicted"

New York Times (12/23/91), P. C15
Gussow, Mel

Abstract: The Raft of the Medusa," a play depicting people with AIDS, was modeled after the Theodore Gericault painting showing shipwreck survivors clinging to a raft crowded with dead or dying people. However, the difference between the painting and Joe Pintauro's play is that, with AIDS, the survivors will also succumb, writes New York Times critic Mel Gussow. The play addresses the effects of AIDS on a diverse urban population and how the less-sick become the caretakers of those who are more ill. The characters in the play contracted the disease in various ways, and the cast of characters includes heterosexuals who are angry because they are infected with what they consider a gay disease. The play involves aspects of a tragedy and moves the audience to an act of empathy, writes Gussow.

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