Written before the epidemic had a name, The Normal Heart, written by Larry Kramer, is a play about the AIDS crisis in the early 1980s. Together with the directors George C. Wolfe and Joel Grey, Rockwell Group conceived the set as a memorial to the heroes who found their voices and fought the disease. The set consisted of 3 large white walls that contained 6,310 individually cut out letters that came together to form sentences recounting the early events of the AIDS crisis.