Coping With Uncertainty: Roz, Ray, and the AIDS Epidemic

The stage contains only a desk and a chair. But along the back wall is piled a jumble of furniture. On closer inspection, many of the pieces are children's furniture--cribs, bunk beds-and toys-trucks, dolls, balls. This backdrop forewarns the audience of the chaos of the events underlying the story that is about to unfold. In addition, all of the objects are painted white, recalling the cleanliness of hospitals and evoking the whiteness of bones. The play performed on that stage, Roz and Ray, has as its backdrop the early years of the AIDS epidemic but focuses on an affected population whose story is less well known-patients with hemophilia. Here, Zylke discusses Roz and Ray and the AIDS epidemic..

Medienart:

Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2017

Erschienen:

2017

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:317

Enthalten in:

The journal of the American Medical Association / Englische Ausgabe - 317(2017), 2, Seite 116

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Zylke, Jody W [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome--AIDS
Epidemics
Public health
Theater criticism

doi:

10.1001/jama.2016.19013

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

OLC1987294726