←Recommendations of PrEP Play, or, Blue Parachute

A touching intergenerational queer love letter. Liu's brilliant play is a provocative exploration of queerness, and the dangers and joys of nostalgia in an increasing globalized world.

Liu creates a theatrical world through which we see and discuss the AIDS epidemic in NYC through multiple nuanced lens; encouraging intergenerational conversation about death, love, and queer futurity. This is also a rare play that we see the AIDS epidemic in 80s and 90s NYC via the perspective of a young millennial gay Asian immigrant. This international perspective gives opportunity to start looking at the global impact of LGBTQ activism in the US of the 80s and 90s. Lastly, like all of Liu's work, it is emotionally honest, vulnerable, and creatively inventive.

A revealing and important look at the reach of the AIDS crisis and its affect on all it touched. Well done.

Okay, the fact that PrEP is a character already sent me, but the characterization is so specific and fun that you can't help but find that little blue pill a charming and exciting friend. The humor balanced against the tension is strikingly energized. If you would like to dive deeper into what PrEp means for HIV prevention, you would benefit from reading this work.

Playwrights Foundation enthusiastically recommends this play, THE PrEP PLAY, or BLUE PARACHUTE, as a Semi-Finalist for the Bay Area Playwrights Festival 2020. We were moved by the quality of the writing and the relevant and compelling themes that spoke to the mission of our festival. It excelled in a competitive process of 735 plays submitted this year and rose to the top after a six month long process discussing its merits with both national and local Bay Area readers, and we hope it moves swiftly towards production.

This was one of those plays I stumbled upon and couldn't put down. It's funny, poignant, original and necessary. I haven't read anything else by this playwright yet, but this piece made me want to read anything they write. LOVE it.

A vital, intersectional look at cross-generational and interracial gay relationships (platonic, romantic, sexual, otherworldly) in conversation with the AIDS crisis and the advent of PrEP. Liu crafts a magical theatrical universe with its own set of rules, mixing humor with pathos quite well. The push-pull that Liu renders here of acknowledging the past and contemplating how that is in conversation with progress/today gives voice to a necessary dialogue that often remains unplumbed in queer narratives. While it is a much more intimate piece than, say, "Angels," its thematic aspirations and achievements are similarly lofty in scope.

"Whoa. God almighty. Very Tony Kushner." This meta-theatrical line in the play makes sense for obvious reasons. Like Angels in America this is a play that employs elements of fantasy to look at the AIDS epidemic. This play also should be in conversation with Kushner's epic because it does what Angels doesn't and that's share the perspectives around AIDS from people that aren't white gay men. It's a beautiful story of an inter-generational and inter-racial relationship that asks some vital questions about the state of AIDS today and how it impacts people of different eras. PRODUCE THIS PLAY!!