SOURCE: "More in Sorrow than Anger," in The Times, London, 24 September 1993, p. 39.

In the following evaluation of the London production, Nightingale contends that "The Destiny of Me may be a sequel to The Normal Heart, but it has little of that play's power to scorch and sear. "

When we last met the writer and gay activist Ned Weeks, it was at the end of Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart, and he was not a happy man. He had just lost his lover, the first serious one of his 40-year-old life, to AIDS. He had also been chucked out of the health crisis centre he himself had set up, having offended his colleagues by suggesting, first, that they should fight more forcefully for public attention, second, they should renounce casual sex. The future did not look bright, either for him or for victims of the great plague.

That was...