The Way We Live Now – abstract "The Way We Live Now" is designed to create a dialogue surrounding the issues of AIDS. The play will confront these issues and allow each reader to explore their own beliefs without being confronted by controversial situations. It is a clear, lyrical piece with emphasis placed on words and individual feelings. "The Way We Live Now" consists entirely of fragments of conversation among friends concerned about a friend with AIDS. They confer on the telephone, over coffee, in the halls of the hospital, about the patient and his illness. They speculate, prognosticate, share anxieties, trade feelings of guilt and blame, pool the