“The play slowly makes its way through the decades and ends in the present, with another pandemic that both crushes and spurs Eduardo. ”
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“It's a revealingly calculated performance, telling the story of a man who can sweep others up in his own myth with a dazzling wave of his hands.”
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“ ‘Not About Me’ could be a powerful coming-of-age tale. As it stands, however, it isn't ready to be seen. In its current form, it is difficult to understand what its creator was thinking.”
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Eduardo Machado’s 11th play to premiere at Theater for the New City is called "Not About Me" which is a complete misnomer as it is about his life for the last 40 years with his alter ego at its center. Marketed as a “memory play that takes audiences on a haunting journey through the mind of a playwright during Covid-19 lockdown,” in fact, it is about his friends who died during the last pandemic, the mysterious “gay disease” that came to be called AIDS. Other than as a tribute to those lost friends, it is difficult to see the message of the play as it depicts a great deal of risky behavior.
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The 2020 pandemic with its death and disruption spurred venerable gay actor and playwright Eduardo Machado to mentally revisit his life during the 1980’s AIDS crisis in New York; this memory play recreates his experiences. Filled with his superior stagecraft and fine writing, it is his lyrically theatrical take on the past recaptured.
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