The most poignant character of Larry Kramer's incendiary The Normal Heart appears silently throughout the action: the growing count of AIDS victims. Character, perhaps, provides an insufficient descriptor, but the presence of this trail of death (41 as of 1981 to today's count of 35 million) projected on the darkened set at intervals, permeates the play with the resonance of those lost. By the end of the show, the r…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 12:20PM on May 25, 2011