The AIDS Show (1986)

Directed by

Peter Adair, Rob Epstein

Genre

LGBT-related television series

Country

United States

Runtime

56 min

Rating

4.0 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This 1986 documentary captures a theatre piece written by a collective of artists in response to the HIV/AIDS crisis. It shows how the LGBTQ community used performance to process grief and raise awareness about the epidemic's impact on their lives.

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What happens

The AIDS Show (Artists Involved with Death and Survival) is a 1984 American collaboratively written theatre piece created to address the social impact HIV/AIDS had on the LGBTQ community. A 1986 documentary film of the same name was developed by producer and writer Rob Epstein and filmmaker Peter Adair. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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