The AIDS Plays Project: Queer Plays from Trailblazing Writers Lost to HIV/AIDS (Methuen Drama Play Collections)

Trailblazing, visionary, and too often neglected - this collection honours and celebrates seven queer playwrights from America, Ireland, and Britain whose lives were cut short by HIV/AIDS. Curated by The AIDS Plays Project, and edited by its director, Alastair Curtis, this anthology revives seven plays written by pioneering queer playwrights, providing a platform that restores and mends the link between queer artists and their audiences that has largely been severed by the ongoing AIDS crisis. The plays in this collection showcase a striking a striking, eclectic range of styles and stories - from a nineteenth-century drag-infused riff on La Traviata to a comedy about a bisexual ghost haunting rural Massachusetts, to a San Francisco-set tragedy about phone sex and an urgent exploration of Irish politics in a London pub.It also highlights these writers' lasting impact on queer culture and activism-whether by introducing the first bisexual characters on Broadway, performing agitprop theat