‘An extraordinary hour’: the explosive play re-staging the biggest TV clash of the Aids era

Filed by Vivien Star

A New York production brings Larry Kramer and Anthony Fauci’s 1993 debate to life in a masterclass of controlled furyOn 30 November 1993, the Aids activist Larry Kramer and Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, were arguing again. They argued a lot back then about the US government’s response, or lack thereof, to the Aids crisis. Fauci asserted institutional legitimacy. Kramer scolded that any institution presiding over a genocide doesn’t have any.