In The Continuum Set for Transfer to Perry Street Theatre

In The Continuum, Danai Gurira and Nikkole Salter’s two-person show about how AIDS affects African and African-American women, will begin an eight-week run at the Perry Street Theater on November 18. The show recently closed at Primary Stages after a highly successful engagement.

Directed by Robert O’Hara, the play is structured as two intertwining narratives. The first, performed by Gurira, is set in Zimbabwe and centers around Abigail, a newscaster for a government-supported television network who is excited to find out that she is expecting her second child — until she discovers that she has been diagnosed as HIV-positive. The second, performed by Salter, is set in Los Angeles and concerns Nia, a 19-year-old girl who also learns that she is both pregnant and HIV-positive. Both actresses play multiple characters in their narratives.

In his TheaterMania review of the production, Dan Bacalzo wrote: “In The Continuum has an unapologetically activist component, but while it skirts the edge of didacticism, it contains enough humor and heartfelt drama so as not to seem merely agitprop.”