Evin Marie is a playwright and owner and artistic curator of the Maekeen Room, a shared loft space for creatives.
Marie’s work has joined a growing list of plays about health and social issues, tackling AIDS with Blotch.
In Blotch, Jacob Mitchell’s world comes crashing down when an ex-lover advises him that he should be tested for HIV.
Mitchell refuses to get tested, rationalizing that to know his status would snuff out any hope for living a full life. Mitchell begins a journey where he lives among HIV positive people who are, in fact, living full lives. Mitchell falls in love and must make a decision of whether to do the right thing and get tested or do the wrong thing and envelope himself in blissful ignorance.
Blotch was supported by the AIDS Foundation of Chicago. –zondra hughes
Photos by Bernard Williams
