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LARRY KRAMER (1935 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Casarotto Ramsay and Associates Ltd |
Larry Kramer was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut on June 25th 1935. He was educated in Yale. He spent most of the 1960s in London writing screenplays including "Women In Love" for Ken Russell. When he returned to the States he wrote the hugely successful novel "Faggots" (which was condemned by some gay activists because of its hedonistic portrayal of gay men). When the AIDS crisis broke Larry was in the forefront of campaigning to get something done. He formed the organisation Gay Mens Health Crisis. In the 1990s Kramer was diagnosed as being HIV+. He gave what was considered a shocking speech during the 2004 Presidential election in which he said that gay men were too involved with drugs and sex to bother about their rights and that the US government were using AIDS as a way of exterminating homosexuals. In 2001 Yale University accepted his political and literary papers and an endowment to establish a gay history course. He lives in New York with his partner David Webster
Plays by Larry Kramer
Destiny Of Me, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1992 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London, 1993 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #19695 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | sequel to The Normal Heart | |||||
Synopsis: | AIDS, the medical establishment and memories of coming out | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Four Friends | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1974 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #47102 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | A satirical look at gay sex lives | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Just Say No | ||
| 1st Produced: | WPA Theatre New York City | 1988 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | St Martin's Press , 1989 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #19696 | |||
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Genre: | Play About Farce | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | Political satire on the Ronald Regan presidency - though here referred to as "Daddy" and the "Potentate".Foppy Schwartz lives in a large town house in "Georgetown" he has bedrooms named after Genet, Wilde and Cocteau. He is the centre of the social whirl of the Capital and is the confidant of the first lady - Mrs Potentate. Mrs Potentate has arranged a liaison at Foppy's home with a young man - but she has forgotten his name and what he looks like. Before she arrives, Trudi Tunick arrives wearing a leather bikini and a commissionaire's overcoat. She says that she is the mistress of Herman Harrod and that he had said that Foppy would let her take refuge because she has a video of an orgy that she and Herman arranged for some high officials from the White Palace and they hope to sell it for a fortune. The doorbell rings - Trudi thinks it might be the Secret Service after the video - so she hides in the Genet bedroom. However, it is Gilbert a young man that Foppy lusts after. Gilbert has left his lover, the Mayor of a large town and wants to hide in case the Mayor chases after him. Gilbert has hidden in Foppy's bedroom when the doorbell rings again - this time it is Junior the son of the Potentates who wants to be a ballet dancer and to come out. He is running away from his parents to live his own life. The Mayor turns up and Herman, the video tape is passed from one person to another and finally Mrs Potentate arrives for her liaison. Gilbert and Junior meet and fall in love - it looks like Herman dies whilst having sex with Trudy. After much running in and out of the bedrooms. Junior and his mother confront each other. He tells that he loves Gilbert and that they are going to live together and come out publicly. However, they have all underestimated Mrs Potentate who gets the compromising video, forces Junior into marriage and Gilbert into an institution for the insane. | |||||
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Minor Dark Age, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | reading at Actors Centre, London | 2002 | ||||
Company: | Operating Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #91309 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 | ||
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Normal Heart, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Public Theater, New York | 1985 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | New American Library, New York, 1985 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0452257986 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #19697 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 14 | Female | 1 | ||
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| Epoch making polemic about the AIDS crisis. | |||||
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Reports From The Holacaust: The Making Of An AIDS Activist | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1989 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #19698 | |||
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Sissies' Scrapbook | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #19699 | |||
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