Zero Patience

Sodomy ain’t so symbolic. Your rectum ain’t a grave.

A surreal, genre-defying musical that blends historical fantasy with AIDS activism, using darkly playful absurdism to grapple with grief, stigma, and mortality.

The ghost of "patient zero", who allegedly first brought AIDS to North America - materialises and tries to contact old friends. Meanwhile, the Victorian explorer Sir Richard Burton, who drank from the Fountain of Youth and now works as Chief Taxidermist at the Toronto Natural history Museum, is trying to organise an exhibition about the disease for the museum's "Hall of Contagion".