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| re: How quickly did the American theater begin writing about / discussing / producing works about AIDS? | |
| Posted by: ryhog 11:22 pm EST 02/17/21 | |
| In reply to: re: How quickly did the American theater begin writing about / discussing / producing works about AIDS? - keikekaze 10:23 pm EST 02/17/21 | |
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| I think your answer also gives a clue about the difference. Unless we have horrifically miscalculated, this disease will be no more than a shadow after four years, and we will be grappling with other, even thornier issues (climate change, systemic racism, the radical right, power grids, etc etc etc). We HAVE a vaccine for covid, we have multiple vaccines in fact. Although we had a president who tried to ignore it a la Reagan, covid could not be hidden. I don't think it will prove interesting in the rear view mirror, and I think the manifestation of crises in poor and minority communities that covid uncovered will be expressed in present tense issues, not more stories about covid. AIDS didn't go away; it still hasn't. There was a fantastic play about covid, the docudrama that the Public streamed over the summer about the healthcare workers, The Line. That was present tense. It still haunts. | |
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| re: How quickly did the American theater begin writing about / discussing / producing works about AIDS? | |
| Posted by: keikekaze 05:15 pm EST 02/18/21 | |
| In reply to: re: How quickly did the American theater begin writing about / discussing / producing works about AIDS? - ryhog 11:22 pm EST 02/17/21 | |
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| I suspect that your predictions are more or less correct. Even though covid has by no means gone away, it seems that we as a society already have even more pressing concerns, and have had ever since the pandemic began. | |
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| re: How quickly did the American theater begin writing about / discussing / producing works about AIDS? | |
| Posted by: ryhog 05:59 pm EST 02/18/21 | |
| In reply to: re: How quickly did the American theater begin writing about / discussing / producing works about AIDS? - keikekaze 05:15 pm EST 02/18/21 | |
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| I've thought about this a little more since I wrote. I think covid may be inseverable from some of the bigger issues that manifested in 2020, and will likely be pressing concerns in the years to come: anti-science, radical right politics, inequality, etc. I think we will see plays about all of those and covid may leak into many of them. But I don't think it will be focused in the way that the AIDS plays have been. | |
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