Carriers
by Jerome Mcdonough

The time of this frank, no-punches-pulled play is right now.

The place: "So nearby it will scare you to death."

Jerome McDonough calls this "The most tragic and the most desperately needed play I have ever written."

Carriers of sexually transmitted infections are primarily in the 15- to 24-year-old age group.

HIV carriers used to be almost exclusively an unknown group that the public did not want to recognize as a problem.

Today it may be the kid at the next desk.

There is no cure for AIDS—and the best prevention is fear.

Carriers is a face-the-facts play designed to instill fear in young adult audiences.

Without obscenities, but with realistic language, McDonough presents the case against the spread of AIDS forcefully and frankly.