What's Normal?
Overall you can see why The Normal Heart didn't trigger the revolution Kramer says he was looking for. His delight in the polemicist ultimately overpowers the polemic. Ned Weeks is forever talking about what a rash, abrasive fellow he is, and Kramer is clearly charmed. In his fascination, he plumbs the humor, anger, and despair in Weeks's ungovernable and self-defeating personality, which ultimately supplants the struggle as the true heart of the play.
Ned Weeks will do anything to push his cause, and so does Kramer in the course of The Normal Heart When Kramer calculates that he needs our tears, he gives us a deathbed scene that pulls no melodramatic punches. It's effective insofar as it produces the aimed-for sniffles, but it actually subverts Kramer's avowed desire to provoke. He would've done better to remember Bertolt Brecht's axiom that people who get catharsis inside a theater rarely seek it on the streets.
Set between 1981 and 1984, The Normal Heart is a searing drama about public and private indifference to the AIDS plague and one man's lonely fight to awaken the world to the crisis. Produced to acclaim in New York, London and Los Angeles, The Normal Heart follows Ned Weeks, a gay activist enraged at the unresponsiveness of public officials and the gay community. While trying to save the world from itself, he confronts the personal toll of AIDS when his lover dies of the disease.
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