![]() Mostly, they’re reluctant: being openly gay was not a smart career move in the early ’80s. While it’s impossible to ignore the parallels – and bitter differences – between the Western responses to Aids and Covid, the play’s programming feel less of a comment on our present than it might have done in the pre-vaccine era.Īn extremely thinly disguised account of the polymath Kramer’s own activism in the three years that preceded its premiere, ‘The Normal Heart’ is about how a few mavericks from the New York City gay community desperately tried to raise awareness of the mystery illness killing their friends. ![]() But now ‘The Normal Heart’ finally arrives, it’s with a full cast and audience. In another timeline, Dominic Cooke’s revival of the late Larry Kramer’s seminal 1985 Aids drama ‘The Normal Heart’ would have opened at the National Theatre in something like February, with a skeleton cast performing to a one-third-full, socially distanced Olivier.Īs it happened, things got both worse and better: the third lockdown derailed the intended opening. ![]()
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