Some of that love is on display in a private dining room at Warner Bros., where I have lunch with Murphy and the male leads from the cast. And it’s still relevant today for many, many reasons, including the silence still surrounding the world pandemic of AIDS.” “It’s one of the rare works of American art that had a direct political impact. “This play is comparable to Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” says playwright Tony Kushner, the author of another groundbreaking play about AIDS, Angels in America. At once a manifesto, an indictment, and a cri de coeur, the play has gone from being a searing call for action to a cultural landmark. Written at a time of appalling official apathy, it tells the story of Kramer’s fictional alter ego, Ned Weeks, as he tries to rouse a hostile political and medical establishment to take action against AIDS while desperately urging his fellow gay men to come out of the closet and fight for their lives. Should you ever find yourself having to choose the most galvanizing play of the last 30 years, you wouldn’t be wrong to name The Normal Heart, Larry Kramer’s scalding 1985 drama about the HIV/AIDS epidemic then decimating the gay community in America. Ryan Murphy and his all-star cast bring Larry Kramer’s catalyzing 1985 play The Normal Heart, which captured the early days of the AIDS epidemic, to the small screen.
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