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play teems with heterosexu
al and homosexual love
scenes, sadomasochism and
casual sex.
Given the mature mater
ial and its explicit presenta
tion, the cast is prepared for
mixed reactions from the
audience. But though the
play is bound to make some
squirm, it is not a glorifica
tion of cheap sex and vio
lence. Rather, the play
explores how people strug
gle to fulfill the gaps in their
lives.
“People don’t recognize
what the possibilities are for
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George Wolf an associate ™E SEDUCTIVE GAZE of Benita, played by Amy Jirea, falls on the audience. The produc
English professor at UNL, tion has caused much discussion because of its frank portrayals of sexuality.
wuu meiuueu lac piay in ins
Gay and Lesbian Drama class. “They
want something different that
they’ve called love and often they
can’t have.”
To communicate the characters’
sense of alienation, Fraser gave the
play a cinematic quality, moving
from scene to scene with lightning
speed and overlapping past with pre
sent.
Like the characters’ lives, the
play jumps from person to person,
relationship to relationship and dia
logue to dialogue, refusing to let the
audience take a breath.
Fraser said the random time cycle
was a purposeful break from the lin
ear timeline most theater utilizes.
“Our minds don’t work in the
way theater people want them to
work,” Fraser said. “We can take in
so much information visually and
aurally. We’re used to being able to
jump from channel to channel and
still keep a narrative.”
His technique is another way of
updating theater for a new generation
of theatergoers. If theater is to con
tinue its role in social activism, it
needs to keep up with the times,
Fraser said.
“Nothing stimulates the mind
like theater,” Fraser said. “But you’ve
got to stimulate all their senses. You
have to make them laugh, scared and
homy. Then, you have to kind of slip
the social action in, if you can.”
If what the audience sees offends
them, well, that’s OK, too.
“If people were to look in on your
real life all the time,” Jirsa said, “I
think they would be offended.”
Playwright addresses AIDS
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other for these common, everyday
symptoms,” Fraser said.
In 1984, Fraser had his first HTV
test. After waiting 21 days for the test
results, Fraser found out he was nega
tive and made a resolution: NO more
wasting time.
“I’ve been lucky for a reason, and I
suspect that reason is to write a play,”
Fraser said.
Fraser began work on
“Unidentified Human Remains and
the True Nature of Love,” a play that
turned a serial killer into the human
embodiment of AIDS, representing the
fear and horror invoked by the disease.
The play won numerous awards
and heaps of accolades before it even
tually turned into a film.
, By 1987, AIDS had moved into the
near outskirts of Fraser’s life. People
Fraser knew personally were dying of
the disease.
“I (was) 28 years old, and I (was)
obsessed with mortality,” Fraser said.
After another AIDS test, Fraser
made more resolutions. For the next
few years, his lovers were pizza, beer
and pop.
In the early 90s, the death of
friends becomes a common thing in
Fraser’s life, and the man whom he
came out of the closet with (through
their first visit to a gay bar) tested pos
itive for HIV
.In the background, new drugs were
prolonging the lives of
HIV positive persons,
and, Eraser sai<i a fever
ish sexuality developed,
desperately trying to
maintain the carefree
vitality of youth.
“AIDS has lost some
of its urgency,” Fraser
said.
During this time,
Fraser wrote another
play “Poor Super
Human.” In it, he sought
to make heterosexuals
feel like homosexuals:
ostracized and made into
second-class citizens.
In 1996, Fraser lost
seven friends to AIDS in
six months. The man he
came out with died of
brain cancer, and his
best friend Sal lay hospi
talized and near death.
BRAD FRASER speaks in the Great Plains Room on
Wednesday night. Fraser, author of the play
“Unidentified Human Remains” spoke about AIDS
in the gay community and its effects on his writing.
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since he was six, Fraser prayed to God.
He asked God to save Sal, and if he
couldn’t do that, to give him the
strength to deal with another death.
A year later, Sal was with Fraser at
a performance for his newest play,
“Martin Yesterday.” The play, while a
success, received lukewarm reviews.
But the response didn’t affect Fraser
like it could have.
“I know theater, while an impor
tant, holy place, is not real life,” he
said.
Now, Fraser continues to write,
direct and act, still affected by the
AIDS epidemic and the second wave
of infection the “crafty, insidious” dis
ease has caused.
And despite all the self-hatred,
loneliness, inequality and bigotry in
the world, Fraser is glad to be alive.
“AIDS,” Fraser said, “Has been the
best and the worst thing to happen to
me.
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