HBO's television adaptation of Larry Kramer's powerful AIDS play The Normal Heart will have its UK premiere on Sky Atlantic this Sunday, 1 June, at 9pm - and the script is available to buy through our website now.

Larry Kramer's passionate, polemical drama, first seen at the Public Theater in New York in 1985, is set during the early days of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s. It follows the efforts of one man, while his friends are dying around him, to break through a conspiracy of silence, indifference and hostility from public officials and the gay community, and gain recognition for a disease that threatens to change everything.

The Normal Heart transferred to the Royal Court Theatre in 1986, and won the Tony Award for Best Revival when it was staged on Broadway in 2011.

Starring Mark Ruffalo, Julia Roberts, Matt Bomer, Taylor Kitsch and Jim Parsons, the HBO adaptation premiered on HBO in the US last weekend (25 May). It has been nominated for five prizes at the Critics' Choice Television Awards: Best Movie, Best Actor in a Movie or Mini-Series (Mark Ruffalo), Best Supporting Actor in a Movie or Mini-Series (Matt Bomer, Joe Mantello) and Best Supporting Actress in a Movie or Mini-Series (Julia Roberts).

The playscript to The Normal Heart is availabe to purchase through our website at a 20% discount - click here to get your copy. The play is also available as an ebook.