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The Playwright on HIV Med Strike
Three months ago, Victor I. Cazares decided to stop taking their pills — until the New York Theatre Workshop calls for a cease-fire in Gaza.
they thought.They began taking Atripla over a decade ago when they received a positive HIV diagnosis as a graduate student at Brown University and then formed a “religious, mystical” attachment to their medication — a miraculous thing that transformed a death sentence into a manageable condition. NYTW has a reputation for prioritizing artistic vision and has nurtured directors like Ivo van Hove, Sam Gold, and Rachel Chavkin, more recently premiering Jeremy O. Harris’s Slave Play and staging Heidi Schreck’s What the Constitution Means to Me. The Workshop’s artistic director, Patricia McGregor, spoke at a rally held about a week later demanding their release, saying, “We will not be silent until the leaders of the Freedom Theatre are freed to be in continued conversation and do their invaluable work.” She did not mention Israel or the war in Gaza.
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