The play's poster:
The play is a comedy about six people hiding out in an underground bunker while they await the perfect moment to stage a drastic protest against the congress' new law to make the transmission of AIDS considered murder. The plan: to infect members of the congress with AIDS right before the vote. The play was held in the intimate space in Teatro Payró located a convenient thirty minute walk from my house. It is a black box theatre located underground meaning it is really just a room with black walls and special lighting. The seats were located against the walls on all four sides and the set consisted of a big bed with a mirrored headboard, a black coffee table, some lantern light fixtures, an old desktop, some pillows, a stair case, and a TV that played clips from some Argentine show with old and young (all with copious amounts of plastic surgery and over sized hair accessories) Argentine celebrities. I'm still not sure of the significance of this part of the play.
The characters were a pregnant girl who doesn't know who the father is, a punkish man who is currently sleeping with her but afraid to hurt the baby, a fat guy who is always on the computer, a skinny hippy type who takes off her clothes and poses like statues at one point, a doctor, an older man who sleeps often and can only be awoken by the basting of the YMCA and then a Pizza boy (Tucker's flatmate) who inadvertently ends up in the bunker and must be kept there so he doesn't expose them and who turns to be gay and also infected with AIDS.
The play was Argentine in the extreme and chock full of Lumfargo (Argentine slang). I missed most of it, but understood more than I thought which was pretty exciting. It also included a killer 80's disco soundtrack, a hot guy on guy make out session, nudity, and a killer strobe light section while the whole group madly tried to put on their white jump suits in preparation to infect the congress with AIDS for which they are already very late since they all passed out on the big bed in a marijuana induced daze. In the end they are about to leave the bunker when they find out that bombs have been set off in labs making the retrovirus medication in three countries killing one hundred people. They stop what they are doing, literally freeze where they are and the doctor asks the older guy who is now with pizza guy what they should do now. He sits lost in thought for a time. After a prolonged silence he proclaims: We go anyway!!! and they charge out the door with their own blood ready to be injected into the not so innocent congress members.
After the show we met Tucker's flatmate (the pizza guy) and stood around for a while and I got the low down on the details I had missed and then Fany and I walked back to San Telmo stopping on the way to enjoy an Antares beer at Gibraltar. All in all I think the second meeting of Theater club was a success!!!
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