SOURCE: "Look What Happened on the Way to My Date with Destiny," in The Times, London, 15 December 1992, p. 13.

In the following, which includes comments from Kramer himself, Muir emphasizes the autobiographical elements of The Destiny of Me.

The best playwrights like to expose their souls on stage, but in his latest play Larry Kramer, who is also America's foremost AIDS activist, might as well have handed the audience a teaspoon and said: "Scoop out the contents of my head."

When Mr Kramer's London psychiatrist, on whose couch he spent seven years, heard about the play, he observed: "Sounds like Larry learnt something."

Mr Kramer's latest offering, The Destiny of Me, opened to strong reviews and packed houses in New York last month. What the critics descibed as "a Jewish homosexual Long Day's Journey into Night" is now set to run well into next year when it will also...