Bury the Dead
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Nov 9, 2008
Closed Nov 23, 2008

Playing at
Connelly Theater

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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

Irwin Shaw's harrowing 1936 classic play Bury the Dead takes place during "the second year of the war that is to begin tomorrow night." While a military burial detail goes about its sad duties, the dead soldiers shockingly begin to rise up, pleading not to be buried. Word of their insurrection spreads rapidly: the dead will not yield so easily. In a series of touching scenes the dead men talk with their loved ones of the days of living, now lost forever. Lucille Lortel Award-Winner Joe Calarco (Shakespeare's R & J) will direct the first major New York City revival of Shaw's legendary anti-war play.

THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:

Connelly Theater
220 E 4th St
New York, NY 10009

This theater is located inside the Connelly Center, a school for neighborhood girls from economically disadvantaged families. This miniature opera house has a beautiful mainstage that was formerly a gymnasium. There is also a black box on the premi [...] Read More

WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?

Joe Calarco brings Irwin Shaw's 1936-anti war play
Bury the Dead to life with marvelous and affecting simplicity in a novel production for the Transport Group, now at the Connelly Theatre. While written nearly three-quarters of a century ago in a time of peace, the work easily manages to have the power to move 21st-century audiences who are living through a time of war.

Shaw's drama -- considered absurdist for its time -- centers on a war that's run into its second year with no end in sight. When a group of soldiers attempts to bury a half-dozen men killed in battle, the corpses rise up in the mass grave into which they've been placed, refusing to be interred. This act of posthumous civ[...]

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Reviewed by Andy Propst on Nov 10, 2008