🎭 PrideArtsChi presents a “smartly conceived” take on Donja R. Love’s play about being Black, queer, and HIV positive. | ✍️ Matt Simonette
, they’ll get a sense that their relationship with the actors for the next 90 minutes will be an unusual one.
The actors are already onstage, stretching and otherwise preparing, as the audience sits down. Following the performance, there is no curtain call. The show wants to disabuse any inclination to attach any of the three actors to any specific character. These aren’t really characters,“Shouldn’t we just tell them who we are so that they don’t see us as numbers?” asks one character at the beginning of the play.
Playwright Donja R. Love’s script addresses those failures head-on, depicting three gay Black men in a formless waiting room, reflecting back on the life of a man named Donté who was living with HIV and eventually committed suicide., the audience is led through a small game that assigns a numerical value to each of the men in the waiting room; whoever ends up with number one portrays Donté. The night I saw the play “Person on the Left” ended up as Donté.
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