I Have AIDS!
by Sky Gilbert
When stand-up comic Prodon
Slamzeck tells his lover Vidor that he has aids, it barely interrupts
their dinner. And why should it? What was once a death sentence is now
no more than a chronic condition, and most gay men deal with aids with
much less melodrama than they did years ago.
Following him through the five
stages of acceptance—Denial, Partying, Loss of Control, Religious
Conversion, and Acceptance—the play pops in and out of monologues
with Prodon and into scenes with Lady Booty, an outrageous drag queen,
Ron, a man who has made aids his personal religion, and the ever supportive
Vidor, each giving their own advice for how to take the news.
A black comedy like no other,
I Have AIDS! is a play about gay men who are neither
tragic or sad, and we are led to laugh with them, not at them.
“Nobody in Canadian theatre
writes more fluent, speakable dialogue than Gilbert…”
—Robert Cushman, National
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