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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 12:00

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 OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts