'Affection' Is An Uplifting New Play About HIV
by The Daily Eye Team October 7 2016, 10:54 am Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 25 secsSix years ago, theatre director Ben Buratta started an unusual collective called Outbox Theatre. Consisting solely of LGBTQ performers, they hold workshops with youth groups across the UK, and improvise performances based on interviews with LGBTQ people – a kind of oral history project on the stage. Their newest play is called Affection and is an examination of what it's like to live with HIV today – a prescient topic, given that rates of infection are at an all-time high.