Suncoast AIDS Theatre Project Presents PRELUDE TO WORLD AIDS DAY: LONGTIME COMPANION Today
By: BWW News Desk
Suncoast AIDS Theatre Project is remembering those who passed and still suffer from HIV/AIDS with their Annual "Prelude To World AIDS Day" presentation of a staged play reading of Craig Lucas' screenplay "LONGTIME COMPANION".
"LONGTIME COMPANION" features an award winning cast featuring Katherine Michelle Tanner ; CHRIS CRAWFORD; Brian Shea; STEVEN GARLAND; Larry Alexander and Chris Jackson with VINCENT STALBA; Joey Panek; JIM SORENSON; JONELLE MARIE MEYER,DREW DECARO and Daniel Harris. All donating their time and talents for this production. "LONGTIME COMPANION", follows the lives of a small circle of friends from the first mention of the disease in the New York Times in 1981. First referred to as "Gay-Related-Immune-Disorder," we watch the effect of the disease as it devastates the lives of our protagonists. Jumping between Manhattan and Fire Island, vignettes carry us from the-it-couldn't-happen-to-me mentality of the early days of the disease to the invasive effect it has had on all of our lives, today. The title of the film comes from the New York Times' refusal to acknowledge homosexual relationships in their obituary section during this period. Instead, survivors were referred to as "Longtime Companions" of the deceased.
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