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...Scott McPherson...
...house stood at the foot of her bed. If you wanted to watch Ed Sullivan, and I did, you also had to watch grandmother, commercials and morphine injections coming at regular intervals. It was a situation that, to a child, seemed neither odd nor morbid," notes playwright Scott McPherson in the program for Marvin's Room. The bluntness in McPherson's art may well be that of a child but it is also one of a brilliant craftsman...
Petrarca has insisted in past interviews that to call this a play about AIDS is to narrow its scope, and to ignore McPherson's original intentions in 1990. But to think of this play as not about AIDS is also to narrow its scope and to ignore McPherson's current sensibilities. McPherson wrote in the note for the program in 1991: "Now I am 31 and my lover has AIDS. Our friends have AIDS. And we all take care of each other, the less sick caring for the more sick. At times an unbelievably harsh fate is transcended...
...year-old McPherson has often been facetious about considering himself a playwright. Whatever he names himself, there are not many writing on this scale: Marvin's Room received the 1992 Drama Desk Award for Best Play, two Outer Critics Circle Awards, the John Gassner Playwrighting award, the Whiting Writer's Award, and the Dramatists Guild Hull-Warriner Award...
...Boston production is the first that McPherson has been too sick to participate in. His comissioned work is currently on hold. With Marvin's Room, McPherson has transcended an unbelievably harsh fate...