It's been twenty years since the Unicorn Theatre staged the play "Beirut," a dark love story set in a future America where people are quarantined for a sexually transmitted disease. Though it sounds like science-fiction, the drama's plague was meant to imply AIDS.
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Kansas City, MO – In 1990, AIDS was relatively new to Kansas City, and accompanied by rampant fear and misinformation. The downtown theater space The Living Room is reviving the play, aware that AIDS is much better understood but, for many, no less provocative.
"Beirut", written by Alan Bowne
Directed by Scott Cordes
November 1 - 13, 2010
The Living Room
1818 McGee
Kansas City, MO
(816) 221-4260
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