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Covid-19 prejudice akin to 1980s Aids panic, say creators of Diana play

Moment of Grace revisits princess’s boundary-breaking visit to UK’s first Aids ward

The prejudice that has affected some communities during the Covid-19 pandemic is akin to that faced by gay men at the height of the Aids crisis, according to the creators of a play about Diana, Princess of Wales’s visit to the UK’s first Aids ward.

The playwright Bren Gosling and producer Paul Coleman were young, gay men living in London in the 1980s and their play, Moment of Grace, goes back to that era, following the lives of three fictional characters who are affected by the royal’s opening of the Broderip ward at Middlesex hospital in April 1987.

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from Culture | The Guardian https://ift.tt/2YHSC1H

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