Review: “one in two” Confronts What Stories We Tell About HIV, and How We Tell Them

Christian Lewis
5 min readDec 11, 2019

In “The Inheritance,” the current talk of the town gay play that claims to deal with the legacy of the AIDS crisis, all of the major characters are not only white, but are HIV-. There are two minor Black characters, one of whom is HIV+, but his status is only mentioned once briefly, and the other Black character similarly only has one quick mention…

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Christian Lewis

Theater Critic. Vassar College alum, current PhD candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center.