Alastair

Curtis

Alastair Curtis (he/him) is a writer, director and founder of The AIDS Plays Project. His writing has been published in Frieze, AnOther, The Economist, Prospect and The Observer amongst others. Sweetheart, his debut short film, premiered at Sundance Film Festival 2025.

Alastair founded The AIDS Plays Project in 2023 to re-stage and re-publish the theatrical works of queer writers whose lives were cut short due to HIV/AIDS-related illnesses. Striving for cultural recovery and repair, the project seeks to mend the connection between these playwrights and a younger generation of queer artists and audiences. Past performances have been featured by the BBC, Frieze, Hero, AnOther, The Evening Standard and The Financial Times, who wrote “play by play, The AIDS Plays Project is reshaping the queer theatrical canon.”

Upcoming

→ Play Circle: Cuba and His Teddy Bear / Thu 20 November 2025 (Workshop)

Archive

Play Circle: Only the End of the World / Thu 9 October 2025 (Workshop)
Play Circle: Milo Lookingale / Thu 18 September 2025 (Workshop)
Spook by The AIDS Plays Project / Thu 4 – Sat 6 September 2025 (Performance)
Reasons for Staying by The AIDS Plays Project / Thu 27 – Sat 1 March 2025 (Performance)
P.S. Your Cat is Dead! by The AIDS Plays Project / Thu 17 – Sat 19 October 2024 (Performance)
Jerker by The AIDS Plays Project / Fri 8 – Sat 9 March 2024 (Performance)
Christmas on Mars by The AIDS Plays Project / Sat 9 December 2023 (Performance)
Camille by The AIDS Plays Project / Sat 9 September 2023 (Performance)

Press

A London Project Is Staging Works by Playwrights Lost to Aids / BROADSHEET
Queer history is yours for the taking / TANK magazine
Quickie with Alastair Curtis / BUTT magazine
A lost generation, found onstage / Queer Theatre Archive
→ The AIDS Plays Project: resurrecting the voices of a lost generation of writers / The Stage
AIDS Plays Project is bringing forgotten queer theatre back to life / THE FACE
How Alastair Curtis Is Rescuing the Works of the Playwrights Lost to AIDS / Interview
The AIDS Plays Project brings forgotten works by playwrights whose lives were cut short back to the stage / Queerty
The Aids Plays Project honours a lost generation of writersFinancial Times
Alastair Curtis on Rediscovering Plays by Writers Lost to AIDS / Frieze
Brilliant Things to Do This December / AnOther Magazine
RECLAIMING THE NARRATIVE / HERO

Publications

Christmas on Mars, published by Polari Press, London, 2024