He even refused to listen to the pleas of his officers who begged him to stay on the right course. Once they set sail, Hugues Duroy de Chaumareys took orders from no one. His appointment was granted due to his loyalty to the monarchy during the Napoleon and Revolutionary periods of France. King Louis XVIII appointed Hugues Duroy de Chaumareys commander of the frigate, despite the fact that he hadn't sailed for twenty years. Volumes of poetry, and a plethora of plays.The Medusa was a French frigate that departed from the port of l’Île d’Aix to transport French conscripts who were supposed to reclaim authority over Senegal. He is the acclaimed author of two novels, several inĪmerican Literature before studying Theology for four years at Graduated from Fordham University in New York City with an M.A. Joe Pintauro (1930-2018) was an award-winning American That's certainly theĬase with Raft of the Medusa, the new drama by Even if a play is makeīelieve, the death sentence is palpably real. The play unquestionably hits home and hits hard." Us with the chilling facts and cold statistics of mortality in theĪge of AIDS. Raft of the Medusa …grabs, holds, and harrows Of their defenses, revealing the bond that is both their curse and The play ultimately strips the alienated characters Is an absorbing work that careens from fierce anger to unabashed The English premiere by the London Gay Theatre Company at The Gate in London in 1995. Since then the play had regional premieres at professional theatres in many other cities including Los Angeles, Baltimore, and Montreal. Raft of the Medusa premiered in 1990 at Home for Contemporary Theatre and Art in New York City before being presented to considerable acclaim at Greenwich Village's Minetta Lane Theatre in 1991. Reaching for their own comfort while they search for unattainable Miracle of a "cure." The quick trauma brings them together, Kind of awe, asking the reporter what it feels like to experience the The other members of the group then react with a The needle was a clean one and that she would not give the disease to Stunned and the reporter is hysterical, until Nairobi reveals that With a dirty syringe, infecting him with the virus. Physically until Nairobi, a homeless woman in the group, stabs Larry That one member, Larry, a reporter, does not have AIDS, but is tape As the evening's discussion progresses they discover Some of them are philosophical, some are angry, and The members of the groupĪre a diverse lot, including homosexuals, heterosexuals andīisexuals, conservatives and liberals, black, white and Hispanic, Living with AIDS, where the members discover the disease they shareĬan divide as effectively as it conquers. Raft of the Medusa takes place 10 years into the AIDSĮpidemic, centering on a weekly support group session of people The subject of Joe Pintauro's play – a group therapy session Mutiny, starvation, murder and cannibalism decreased the 150 people Géricault, which depicts the survivors of an 1816 shipwreck. The play is named after theġ9th-century painting that hangs in the Louvre by Théodore Raft of the Medusa is full-length drama by Joe Pintauro.Ī taut, deeply powerful drama that drives home the reality of AIDS asĪ disease that we all must face.
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