“A mature work by a gifted American playwright in his prime. “Driven by a fierce honesty and searing pain, Kramer’s emotional and moral urgency fills The Destiny of Me with irresistible human truth.” – Newsweek like Arthur Miller at his best.” – Newsday “A harrowing, emotionally naked family-memory-AIDS play, playful and moving, personable and disturbing, with scenes of devastating counterpoint. a seismic jolt of visceral theatricality!” –Frank Rich, The New York Times Poignant, most moving, enriching.” – Time A kind of–and this is meant as praise–Jewish-homosexual Long Day’s Journey Into Night.” –John Simon, New York and almost equally skillfully in the present, the bristling relations of patient and doctor, patient and nurse. What Kramer captures expertly in the past is family relations in their ambiguities, hostilities, and reconciliations. “In The Destiny of Me, Larry Kramer has written a worthy sequel to The Normal Heart. “Kramer’s play actually may work better now in the tragic hindsight of history.” – Chicago Sun-Times “Larry Kramer’s 1988 masterwork refuses to date.” – Chicago Reader “Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart is arguably the best political play of that schizophrenic decade and definitely the definitive dramatic exploration of the early years of the AIDS crisis.” – Chicago Tribune Kramer honors us with this stormy, articulate theatrical work.” –Harold Prince “I haven’t been this involved– upset–in too damn long. It has put politics and journalism to shame for the cover-up of a major disaster and one of the great moral dramas of our time.” –Francis Fitzgerald, author of Fire in the Lake “ The Normal Heart has broken a great silence. “No one who cares about the future of the human race can afford to miss The Normal Heart.” –Rex Reed Kramer has written a parable about the fight that echoes as loudly today as ever.” –Karen D’Souza, San Jose Mercury News The strength of this landmark drama is how much it has to say not just about a dark moment in history, but about the forces that conspire to keep people silent in the face of anguish. The play can be seen as a study in denial, an example of how mankind buries its head in the sand when confronted with inconvenient truths of all kinds. He captures the paralysis that a climate of fear can cause. The playwright’s insights into human nature are keen indeed. The Normal Heart unleashes a ferocious wave of feelings, from outrage to sorrow, that threaten to engulf the viewer. “There’s no distance between the personal and the political in this watershed AIDS drama.

The normal heart and the destiny of me