Roz and Ray
by Karen Hartman

Name: Roz and Ray
Brand: Karen Hartman
SKU: 9780573707513
Rating: 4 (1 reviews)

Roz and Ray Book Cover — Roz and Ray Cover

Highlights

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90 mins Unit Set/Multiple Settings

Synopsis

Set in San Diego, this gripping, time-bending story sheds light on a little-known chapter in medical history during the onset of the AIDS crisis.

While navigating through the complexities of the medical establishment, Roz and Ray tells a profound story of love, trust and sacrifice that grapples with the messy process of healing the human heart.

Ray is a devoted single parent with one goal: keep his twin hemophiliac sons alive.

In 1976, this means endless hospital visits, rigorous testing and frequent blood transfusions.

Then Ray meets Roz – a brilliant doctor who offers a cutting-edge treatment for his boys – and everything clicks.

Until they both discover the miracle treatment may lead to very dangerous results.

Press Reviews

"Brilliantly captures the confusion, and the moral ambiguity, about life on the edge of biomedicine."
— Forbes

"Finely handled... Hartman lays out in accessible and compassionate fashion the missteps of the medical profession, as hemophiliacs began dying along with gay men and others stricken by the disease. Hers is not an indictment of medical malfeasance, it seems, as much as an account of the cascade of institutional errors that led doctors in failing directions before they found the right one."
— Washington Post

"Beautiful and significant... heartbreaking... compelling... moves quickly and flows gently."
— Maryland Theatre Guide

Characters

Character	Gender	Age	Description
Ray Fortyish, playing as young as late twenties. Capable of great love and great rage. Latino, African-American, or Caucasian. From Texas. If the actor playing Ray is Latino, Ray’s last name is pronounced Léon.	—	—	Fortyish, playing as young as late twenties. Capable of great love and great rage. Latino, African-American, or Caucasian. From Texas. If the actor playing Ray is Latino, Ray’s last name is pronounced Léon.
Roz Fiftyish, playing as young as late thirties. Warm and direct. She usually wears a lab coat. Caucasian. From Ohio.	female	—	Fiftyish, playing as young as late thirties. Warm and direct. She usually wears a lab coat. Caucasian. From Ohio.