Name: Just Say No: A Play About a Farce
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ISBN: 9780312054526

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Just Say No: A Play About a Farce

Larry Kramer

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The great tradition of the political play has been revived today by Larry Kramer. First, in his immensely successful The Normal Heart, a play with over six hundred productions around the world that brought the facts of the AIDS epidemic before the American public. Now, with Just Say No, Kramer takes aim at America's rulers and, with a savage and hilarious satire worthy of Jonathan Swift, impales our poohbahs on the shafts of their own hypocrisy.

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104 pages, Paperback

First published December 31, 1989

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Larry Kramer

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Larry Kramer (born June 25, 1935) was an American playwright, author, public health advocate and gay rights activist. He was nominated for an Academy Award, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and was twice a recipient of an Obie Award. In response to the AIDS crisis he founded Gay Men's Health Crisis, which became the largest organization of its kind in the world. He wrote The Normal Heart, the first serious artistic examination of the AIDS crisis. He later founded ACT UP, a protest organization widely credited with having changed public health policy and the public's awareness of HIV and AIDS.[1] "There is no question in my mind that Larry helped change medicine in this country. And he helped change it for the better. In American medicine there are two eras. Before Larry and after Larry," said Dr. Anthony Fauci.[1] Kramer lived in New York City and Connecticut.

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Liv Townsend

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October 16, 2024

Conceptually strong satire, but honestly just really bloody hard to follow because of how chaotic the dialogue can be - probably works well on stage and if I'd seen it in the 1980s I would have gone wilddd for the political slagging off being done.