DANIEL FISH
Kramer/Fauci

Word for word, Daniel Fish recreates the explosive 1993 C-SPAN clash between AIDS activist Larry Kramer and Dr Anthony Fauci — a fight that became a friendship.

  • Tony-nominated director Daniel Fish restages, in full, a 50-minute 1993 television programme in which playwright and HIV/AIDS activist Larry Kramer and infectious disease expert Dr Anthony Fauci confronted each other live on air. What started divisive became, over years, a deep friendship — and Fish’s word-for-word restaging crystallises a genuine turning point in the fight for AIDS care, treatment and recognition. Will Brill plays Fauci, Thomas Jay Ryan plays Kramer, with Greig Sargeant and Jennifer Seastone completing the cast.

  • SPACES AND VIBES
    Theatre, approximately 1 hour, no interval. Suits a serious drama season or a program built around social/political history. Black box or proscenium arch theatre.

    MARKET FIT
    World class theatre from internationally acclaimed director. A searing reminder of how art, activism, and public health collide on the most human terms

    THE DATA
    NYU Skirball Center, New York, return season St Ann’s Warehouse, NYC. Daniel Fish’s previous work Oklahoma! played Broadway NYC and West End, London

Reviewed by Exeunt NYC, TheaterMania and American Theatre on its Skirball season; consensus noted the force of the central performances and the strength of the material. 

Tony-nominated director Daniel Fish restages, in full, a 50-minute 1993 television programme in which playwright and HIV/AIDS activist Larry Kramer and infectious disease expert Dr Anthony Fauci confronted each other live on air. What started divisive became, over years, a deep friendship — and Fish’s word-for-word restaging crystallises a genuine turning point in the fight for AIDS care, treatment and recognition. Will Brill plays Fauci, Thomas Jay Ryan plays Kramer, with Greig Sargeant and Jennifer Seastone completing the cast.

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