one in two
by Donja R. Love

Name: one in two
Brand: Donja R. Love
SKU: 9780822241744
Rating: 4.11 (9 reviews)

Off-Broadway

one in two Book Cover — one in two Cover

Highlights

Male

90 mins Present Day Role(s) for Black Actor(s) All Men Unit Set/Multiple Settings Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes

Synopsis

Three Black queer men sit in an ethereal waiting room.

One is about to be chosen to live the unforgiving story of a man diagnosed with HIV, struggling to be defined by more than his status.

Ten years after his own diagnosis, Donja R. Love has written a fearless account of the reality for too many Americans.

A deeply personal call to action, one in two shines a light on the people behind a statistic and the strength of the community they make up.

Press Reviews

"Donja R. Love’s powerful play balances tenderness and fury… one in two has entered the world in a state of quiet glory, equal parts laughter and pain. Defiantly life-embracing, it’s a call to action over what Love describes as ‘a hidden state of emergency’ in his own community: the risk, projected by the CDC, that one in two Black men who have sex with other men will receive a diagnosis of HIV."
— The New York Times

"A raw, intense and surreal exploration of what it’s like to be a queer African-American man with HIV… A blunt wake-up call that the epidemic is far from over."
— TimeOut New York

"Donja R. Love lays down his life, bares his story, for the sake of his community in an extremely brave and somewhat risky exposure of his own journey… Raw, graphic, intense, powerfully cathartic and disturbing."
— OnStage Blog

Characters

Character	Gender	Age	Description
Person In The Middle Black, Male, 20s/30s	male	20s	Black, Male, 20s/30s
Person On The Right Black, Male, 20s/30s Eventually, the above characters become and will remain the below characters:	male	20s	Black, Male, 20s/30s Eventually, the above characters become and will remain the below characters:
#1 Donté Hart	—	—	Donté Hart
#2 Mom, Banjii Cunt at the Center, Trade, Person at Bar	—	—	Mom, Banjii Cunt at the Center, Trade, Person at Bar
#3 Bartender, Nurse, Kinda Ex-Boyfriend, Married Man at the Center	—	—	Bartender, Nurse, Kinda Ex-Boyfriend, Married Man at the Center
Person On The Left Black, Male, 20s/30s	male	20s	Black, Male, 20s/30s