Epic in length and ambition, zachtheatre's portrait of gay life in the 21st century is stunning.
put a human face on and gave voice to the horrors of the 1980s/1990s AIDS epidemic. Lopez’s 2020 Tony Award-winning portrait of gay life in the 21st century reflects a comparatively gilded era of uncloseted sexual identity, marriage equality, wider cultural representation, and treatable HIV. At issue – and this is the central premise of this play – is whether today’s generation of young gay men understand or will forget what so much progress cost their forebears.
Designers Josafath Reynoso and Austin Brown create a physical world composed of a bare, raised slate platform, which becomes different locations with the introduction of a rug, some furniture, and adjusted illumination. There’s also a slate wall upstage on which chalk drawings reveal simple images emblematic of the scene being played.
This creative convention allows for the casual materialization of long-dead author E.M. Forster . Forster’s 1910 novel– which explored the rigid social structure and codes of conduct in Edwardian England at a moral crossroads – provides the operational foundation for this play and the inspiration for many of its featured characters.
All this adds up to a marvelously structured narrative that includes a few lengthy, engrossing monologues – like the one delivered by the young and economically privileged Adam about an evening of transcendent, dangerous sex in a gay bathhouse in Prague, presented with elation that morphs into haunting ambivalence.
It is easy to see why this play was a Tony-worthy enterprise. It is brilliant. But in this performance, the good folks at Zach Theatre have elevated
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