Back when I was in college, every coed and a few “with-it” professors were agog over a movie called “The Big Chill.” A defining film for the ?80s, it told the story of how a bunch of free-loving friends gather on the occasion of a dear one?s demise.

Lanford Wilson?s “Burn This,” now playing at the Fells Point Corner Theater, was written at that same time, as Reaganomics trickled down and AIDS began to mean something other than “to help.” And like its chilly counterpart, “Burn This” involves friends gathering, bonding and loving freely as a dear one, Robbie, dies.