SOURCE: "The Farce in Just Saying No," in Just Say No: A Play About a Farce, by Larry Kramer, St. Martin's Press, 1989, pp. ix-xxiv.

Kramer on Confrontational Theater:

I don't think that theater artists have responded to AIDS terribly well at all. It's easier for most people to write a check to Broadway Cares, but when you think about the people theater has lost—that the arts have lost—I think the response has been embarrassingly stingy. … I know how talented most of the people who are writing these banal plays are. It seems such an enormous waste of talent not to let their imaginations and their anger run free. The theater is about confrontation and stirring people up. I don't think it's effective unless it does offend someone.

Larry Kramer, quoted in "A Look Back in Anguish," by Stephen Gutwillig, in Theater Week, Vol. 3, No. 19, 25 December 1989, pp...