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gay play about hiv

ASCORBIC ACID FREAK – DARK COMEDY PLAY ABOUT HIV

It’s the late eighties and Mark is infected with HIV, a new supposedly lethal virus that affects the immune system. Mark, a typical gay man living with this new form of 1980’s plague, has begun to invest in all sorts of cures from taking a huge volume of ascorbic acid every day (to boost his immune system) to paying a quack doctor known as Dr Purgess to cure him with all manner of weird and wonderful drugs. Dr Purgess does not believe in the power of Ascorbic acid at all and instead arrives regularly armed with the latest cure all drug in this dark comedy play about HIV AIDS.

Mark’s housemate and companion Stephan both loves Mark and tolerates his hypochondria (which may not be unfounded) and tries to get Mark out and away from dwelling on his health all the time. Enter Wanda and Julie from Mark’s old theatre days who offer him a chance to get back on stage, something that would definitely take his mind off of everything.

But their plans may just be put on hold by Dr Purgess’ latest cure, which may be just the opposite!

PRODUCTION HISTORY

SU Drama Society, University College London Drama Society, London, UK – 2018
Nebraska Wesleyan University, NE, USA – 2021

Other plays by playwright Grant Sutor Vuille – Wall flower house – play about agoraphobia.

Author: Grant Sutor Vuille

Type: One act play about HIV

Genre: Dark comedy

Cast: 4M, 2F

Ages of the actors: All the characters except the doctor are in their twenties or thirties. The doctor may be older.

Suitable for: Adults only to perform and watch. (language, sex)

Length: 25-30 minutes

Set: Mark and Stephan’s apartment with a kitchen and a living room attached.

Level of difficulty: 7/10 – getting the characters right and the feel of the play – comedy with a dark side to it.

Read a Sample of the Script

Cost is $6.50 for this new digital play script. Just Click Shakespeare!

Contact Off The Wall Plays with any queries about Ascorbic Acid Freak

Copyright © June 2018 Grant Sutor Vuille and Off The Wall Play Publishers

Like this play? Other plays of a similar vein:

The Simple Hard – South African drama about living with HIV aids
Chicken, Airbags and Wors – South African play about a sex change op
Dinner at Dario’s – romantic gay comedies

Dramas, One act plays, Ten minute plays

Jars – drama about love between two women

February 10, 2018 Demmer Dewan Leave a comment

drama about love between two women

Jars – drama about love between two women

What’s a kiss between friends? For Heely it is everything. Evidence that her feelings for Shyne weren’t a daydream and vice versa. Evidence that their childhood adventures together were as real as the fireflies Heely wants to spend forever after catching, with Shyne at her side… and their dog – as it should be. And evidence that a southern wife’s story can have its roots in the most unlikely soils, roots that ought to decay now that Shyne has her husband aka ‘him,’ roots that are thriving into a forbidden flower as Shyne still ‘visits’ with her ‘old childhood friend’ and a grown flower that basks in the radiating light of the love between two women who were not meant to fall in love. So is the one act drama about love between two women telling the story of Shyne and Heely, called Jars. It is an act of passion, torment and mostly, of hope.

From one to the other, paths had crossed, blood was spilled and they would forever be lovers.

PRODUCTION HISTORY

Troy University Department of Theatre and Dance, AL, USA – 2022

Author: Jordan Morille

Type: Ten minute drama plays

Genre: Drama about love between two women

Cast: 2 – F

Ages of the actors: Both are in their thirties

Suitable for: PG 12 (content)

Length: Ten minutes

Set: A treehouse

Level of difficulty: 7/10 – accents – the play is written in a Southern dialect which should be pronounced perfectly if used or not at all.

Read a Sample of the Script

Cost is $8.00 for this new digital stage play script. Just click Shakespeare!

Contact Off The Wall Plays with any queries about Jars

Copyright © February 2017 Jordan Morille and Off the Wall Play Publishers

Like this play? Others like it:

Carmilla – classic vampire tale of love between two women
Suprises – short one act drama for two women
Juan and Emmett – tragic gay love story

Dramas, One act plays, Thrillers/Horrors

Marvin’s Fetish – Gay drama for two actors

August 17, 2016 Demmer Dewan Leave a comment

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MARVIN’S FETISH – GAY DRAMA FOR TWO ACTORS

For one night you would have yourself a married man. One elegant night he would be yours. Yours to caress, laugh with, divulge your darkest secrets to and indulge in your sweetest fantasies with.
One night. One night only. Marvin had this one night planned out to a T; from the manner in which John would address him and others around them, to what he would wear, Marvin left nothing to be
desired, after all he was paying for the ‘services’ of a flawlessly masculine man; he was paying for the ‘services’ of John.

In this gay drama for two actors, we discover what a burning passion for the popular high school jock has become for old Marvin. But (“but’s” seem to be the norm for these tricky transactions) there was more to it than a payment received when it came to Johns’ M.O. And his M.O. would prove a bit too fabulous for the one night Marvin had prepared.

Marvin’s Fetish achieved finalist status in Tennessee Williams’ prestigious one-act play festival in New Orleans, and has been hailed as one of the most original two-character gay plays that has ever been written and as one of the most clever and unpredictable psychological thrillers of recent times.

Marvin’s Fetish has enjoyed three performances: The LGBT Center at 208 West 13th Street, New York City, Kairo’s Poety Café at 81 Christopher Street, New York City, and Moonfire (courtesy of Amethyst Nemzoff) at 305 Seventh Avenue, New York City. The last two readings were directed by Alan Baxter and featured DeAngelo Justice (as Marvin Casper) and Mark Parker (as John Corelli).

FURTHER PRODUCTION HISTORY

Yafo, Tel Aviv, Israel – 2017

Read about playwright S.R. Anzalone.

Author: S.R. Anzalone

Genre: Gay drama for two actors, psychological thriller

Type: One act play

Cast: Two men, 2M

Ages of the actors: Thirtyish

Suitable for: PG 13 (subject matter)

Length: Forty five to sixty minutes

Set: Small sofa (room for two) Two arm chairs; coffee table; book shelf; one or two Marilyn Monroe movie posters from either The Seven Year Itch, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes or a large portrait of Marilyn Monroe; One or two posters from any of the following classics: The Wizard of Oz, Citizen Kane, Sunset Boulevard, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

Level of difficulty: 8/10 – a challenging but fulfilling script that morphs from a light script into a heavier psychological gay thriller as it progresses.

Read a Sample of the script

Cost is $8.00 for this finalist digital play script

Contact Off The Wall Plays with any queries about Marvin’s Fetish

Like this play? Other LGBT plays to peruse:

Love is a Stranger – British one act gay play about forbidden love
Behind the Nets – period drama in which a woman in a small town find’s out her husband’s secret
For Never, not always – comedy where the bride gets dumped at the altar. For the best man!

Comedies, One act plays

Chicken, airbags and wors – South African comedy scripts

May 18, 2015 Demmer Dewan Leave a comment

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CHICKEN, AIRBAGS AND WORS – SOUTH AFRICAN COMEDY SCRIPTS

South African comedy script by popular playwright Ashley Nader. In this transgender comedy script, Shannon has fallen desperately in love with a gay man, who then comes out and then dumps her for a famous gay TV star. Shannon’s best friend is Julie, who desperately wants a sex change operation and hopes her parents will pay for it. Both girls are in for a bit of a disappointment in this South African comedy script.

Other comedies by Ashley Nader. Read about playwright Ashley Nader.

Author: Ashley Nader

Genre: South African comedy scripts

Type: One act play

Cast: 1M (as F) 1F

Ages of the actors: 20’s – 30’s

Suitable for: Adult audience – sexual references and innuendos

Length: 20 minutes

Set: The living room of a normal girl’s apartment

Level of difficulty: 7/10 – an easy conversational script. Keeping a straight face.