![]() ![]() Kramer honors us with this stormy, articulate theatrical work.” –Harold Prince “I haven’t been this involved– upset–in too damn long. It has put politics and journalism to shame for the cover-up of a major disaster and one of the great moral dramas of our time.” –Francis Fitzgerald, author of Fire in the Lake “ The Normal Heart has broken a great silence. ![]() “No one who cares about the future of the human race can afford to miss The Normal Heart.” –Rex Reed Kramer has written a parable about the fight that echoes as loudly today as ever.” –Karen D’Souza, San Jose Mercury News The strength of this landmark drama is how much it has to say not just about a dark moment in history, but about the forces that conspire to keep people silent in the face of anguish. The play can be seen as a study in denial, an example of how mankind buries its head in the sand when confronted with inconvenient truths of all kinds. He captures the paralysis that a climate of fear can cause. The playwright’s insights into human nature are keen indeed. The Normal Heart unleashes a ferocious wave of feelings, from outrage to sorrow, that threaten to engulf the viewer. “There’s no distance between the personal and the political in this watershed AIDS drama. ![]()
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