Personally: Resurrection
In a moment of fate in 2017, Dane is gifted a bundle of old love letters and theatrical scripts. They were written by a man named Daryl Allen in the years before AIDS took his life in 1991. Daryl was a bisexual man and amateur playwright who lived in San Francisco through the 70s and 80s. Along with the letters, Dane is given a task: tell Daryl’s story and give his theatrical work the audience it lost when his life was cut short by HIV.
Over the next five years, Dane settles into the role of detective, using Daryl’s letters to track down his exes, his old friends, and his relatives. Dane is taken from Montreal to San Francisco,from small-town Kansas to the Vietnam War. As his investigation unfolds, Dane discovers striking similarities between himself and Daryl, raising questions about how the AIDS crisis shaped today’s queer communities and launching a dialogue between generations.
Part investigation, part historical documentary, and part love story, Resurrection asks us what
we leave behind when we go. While HIV/AIDS is a major theme, Daryl’s story proves that for every person lost to AIDS, there’s a life story that started long before a diagnosis and is just waiting to be resurrected.
SHORT: Resurrection is the story of Dane Stewart, a playwright in Montreal, and what he did with a cache of love letters and scripts by a playwright named Daryl Allen, who died in 1991 from HIV/AIDS. Over eight episodes, Dane gives new life to understanding what it was like to be an artist and gay man in the 60s, 70s, 80s, all the way through to today, through Dane's own personal reflections and journey.
Get lost in someone else’s life. From a mysterious childhood spent on the run, to a courageous escape from domestic violence, each season of Personally invites you to explore the human experience in all its complexity, one story — or season — at a time. This is what it sounds like to be human.
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Season 1 | Run, Hide, Repeat: a story of a childhood spent on the run.
Season 2 | Welcome to Paradise: a courageous escape from domestic violence.
Season 3 | Short Sighted: an attempt to explain what vision loss feels like by exploring how it sounds.
Season 4 | Sorry About The Kid: an emotional, deeply personal meditation on the loss of a sibling.
Season 5 | Toy Soldier: The unbelievable story of a Jewish boy amongst Nazis.
Season 6 | Forever is a Long Time: Every living member of Ian Coss’ family who has been married has gotten divorced. Can his marriage end differently?
Season 7 | NO: Kaitlin Prest found herself wondering if the world forgot the lessons that shook 2017.
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