gender? perspective? is there a right and wrong? Attended a small black box theatre performance of three – 2 act plays in a nearby village. Two pieces were written by newer, but older, playwrights and both were men. The premise of the first play was about a traveling professional woman [tpw] who set up one-night-stands specifically with married men. A few days later she informed them she had AIDS [she did not}. She was ‘teaching them a lesson’. On this night, a man she met, comes to her house, where she is chatting with her sister. The man enters, the sister leaves and the couple exit stage right. Act 2. Sister returns and the two enter from stage right – the bedroom. The three sit to chat and the suitor takes up the story begun in Act 1 about being in town to bury his brother. The plot line reveals the brother committed suicide. The suitor takes a letter from his pocket and begins to read… it is the ‘I’ve got AIDS’ letter written by the tpw. The letter threatens to tell the wife and other dire consequences. At the letter’s end, the suitor says, ‘Now you do have AIDS’ because I do. Go have yourself tested and you’ll see.’ There was room for a rewrite as some ins and outs required too great a suspension of belief, but the turn of events made my opinion from the first act that she was indeed ‘teaching’ to question who was teaching whom a lesson? The cheating husband was being exposed, but the question put forth by the script was she on moral high ground or was she to blame. It was a surprise food for thought – which was the title of the evening’s program.