“Walker and Burke are able and appealing performers, but surface-level charm is all the information-saturated dialogue will allow. Not that the final scene offers narrative resolutions; the relationships between the characters hardly ask for any, and the future of scientific study is still unwritten.”
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"The play ends on an unresolved note, which may be truthful in a society that hasn’t come to a healthy accord with disease and death. Unfortunately, that authenticity makes for an unsatisfying, unfinished-feeling drama."
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“The title of David J. Glass' new play is strictly truthful; Love + Science hitches together personal drama with a potted history of the AIDS epidemic, focusing on the search for viable treatments. It's an odd, ungainly hybrid of straightforward romance and virus-hunting drama. And it isn't terribly original: Glass aims to blaze a trail already explored by Tony Kushner, Larry Kramer, and William Hoffman without having anything fresh to add.”
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“What ‘Love + Science’ could use is more love and less science.”
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As for the play itself, "Love + Science" tells a good story, even if not necessarily a new one. It’s largely another history of AIDS with a few scientific sprinkles thrown in. Where Glass’ script succeeds is in its characters and their determination. There are two especially poignant moments, conveyed by Melissa and Jane (both played by Williams), where they each confront Matt about how damaging his indecisiveness over owning his homosexuality is. And the scene where Jeff reproaches Matt for telling James that AIDS is 100% fatal is riveting. Lastly, it’s in the final scene where Glass’ play provides its most powerful message, when a now middle-aged Matt in 2021 compares the body count of AIDS to that of COVID-19, contrasting the swiftness with which the governments of the world produced a vaccine for COVID-19 where they have yet to create a vaccine for HIV, 40 years into the AIDS pandemic.
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"I appreciated the modesty with which the play was produced, showcasing how much can be done with very little. Good things often come in small packages and 'Love + Science' is a very good thing."
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The linchpin of the play is [Matt] Walker’s flawed Matt. Though both he and Jeff are determined to excel, Matt is willing to surrender more of his personal life to pursue his work. … In a masterly performance, Walker persuasively shows a man who embraces a celibacy that is both stunting and heroic, given the purported risks of merely kissing or breathing the same air as someone who’s infected.
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