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AIDS on stage: then and now

The way we think about HIV/AIDS has changed, as has the way we represent the pandemic artistically, as two different productions opening this week demonstrate.

3 Jun 2016

Richard Watts

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Performing Arts

Jacob Boehme in Blood on the Dance Floor. Photo by Bryony Jackson.

Between 1981, when the catastrophic effects of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) were first observed in the USA, and 2014, the World Health Organisation estimates that acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) has resulted in an estimated 34 million deaths worldwide.

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Richard Watts

Richard Watts is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM, and serves as the Chair of La Mama Theatre's volunteer Committee of Management. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and was awarded the status of Melbourne Fringe Living Legend in 2017. In 2020 he was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize. Most recently, Richard was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Green Room Awards Association in June 2021. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts