“Poignant, most moving, enriching...more than a play about AIDs and death, THE DESTINY OF ME is a play about homosexuality and life.” (Time)
Winner of the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play in 1993 and nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in the same year, The Destiny of Me is something of a sequel to playwright Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart.Premiering Off-Broadway in 1992, Destiny features AIDS activist Ned Weeks, the subject of Kramer's earlier play. Weeks checks himself into an experimental treatment program run by the very doctor that his militant organization has been criticizing most. Frightened of dying from the disease, Ned finds himself fighting to get a little more time among the living - and to figure out his life. Through Kramer's use of daring stagecraft, Ned, from his hospital bed, reenters his childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood, talking with the boy he once was and with whom he still hasn't come to terms. Seeing his past through the dual vision of a child's and an adult's eyes becomes a stunning revelatory experience, filled with anger and laughter, understanding and irreconcilable absurdity. All the while Ned, the patient, engages his doctor and nurse in a caustic verbal exchange about AIDS research, treatment, and activism. Stirring theater, as well as provocative, exciting reading, The Destiny of Me is great American drama, and Larry Kramer is an artist with the skill to make words, like scalpels, cut our feelings to the bone.
- Title: The Destiny of Me
- Author: Larry Kramer
- Publisher: Plume
- Year: 1993
- First Edition
- Place: New York
- Length: 122pp
- Dimensions: 5.75” x 8.5”
- Cover photograph by Martha Swope
- ISBN: 0452270162
- Condition: The jacket is clean with only minimal wear. The cover is in excellent condition. The pages are clean and crisp, no fold or tears. There are no notes, underlines, or other extraneous marks.