Yilong Liu | Playwright
  • About
  • Plays
    • The Book of Mountains and Seas
    • June is The First Fall
    • Joker
    • PrEP Play, or Blue Parachute
    • Flood in The Valley (Musical)
    • Selected Shorts
  • Press
  • Contact
  • Dramatic Translation
PREP PLAY, OR BLUE PARACHUTE

What if you had the chance to rewrite history? Erik’s world is thrown into free-fall when he’s pulled into a wondrously bizarre time-traveling journey by Agent 701 (aka his now-sentient PrEP pill). Landing into the AIDS epidemic of the 80s, Erik finds himself in a race against history to save a life lost decades ago. A contemporary queer fantasia that examines the ghosts of our past and the hopes for our future.
DEVELOPMENT HISTORY 
New Conservatory Theater Center
April 1 - May 8, 2022
PRESS
American Theatre Magazine
"Provocative exploration of queerness, and the dangers and joys of nostalgia in an increasing globalized world."

Arts & Understanding
"PrEP Play is a beautiful, insightful story about queer relationships, cultural differences, personal loss, and communal history."
 
Theatrius
"Yilong Liu’s Queer-Sci-Fi Whisks Us Back to the Future… The trip is witty, passionate, and full of surprises."
 
Talkin' Broadway
"Playwright Yilong Liu has written a fascinating piece of theatre that slips between eras (the 1980s and 2018) with the ease of a bird flitting from one tree to another…taking playgoers on a fascinating thought experiment on what could have been, and what might still be."
 
San Francisco Chronicle
"Sexy, poetic, hilarious script."

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National Queer Theater, workshop, 2020
Stella Adler Studio of Acting, workshop, 2019
Ensemble Studio Theatre, reading, June 2019
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