Post Mortem

In Post Mortem, a secretly liberal lecturer and her adoring grad student at a “faith-based” college in the future dig up a lost play that could bring down the oppressive conservative regime. Its author? A long-forgotten scribbler called A.R. Gurney. The comedy is a lively, pointed send-up of censorship, cell phones, Dick Cheney, and Gurney’s own life (deliciously embellished). Blending a slew of theater-savvy jokes with sizzling satire, Gurney’s sly, edgy script bubbles far beyond his “comedies of manners” that fed the fame he pokes fun at. In Post Mortem, he also thoughtfully examines the role of theater in a world that seems to have little time left for it.