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Bury the Dead
by Irwin Shaw
with a curtain raiser
A Town Hall Meeting
by Joe Calarco
The Transport Group
Director: Joe Calarco
Scenic Design: Sandra Goldmark
Costume Design: Kathryn Rohe
Lighting Design: R. Lee Kennedy
Sound Design: Michael Rasbury
"It would require one spectacular theatre season for this stirring and captivating re-imagination of Shaw's fascinating absurdist piece to not be considered one of its highlights. It's a bit of a cliché to say an old play is just as meaningful today as it was back then, but within his insightful concept Calarco, without altering the playwright's original work, effectively shows us contemporary people being overwhelmed by the relevance of a 72-year-old work of drama. Given the subject matter it may seem trivial to call this dangerous theatre, but it is at the very least a risk-taking project and it succeeds brilliantly."
-Broadwayworld
"Joe Calarco brings Irwin Shaw’s 1936-anti war play to life with marvelous and affecting simplicity. What’s novel about this production, however, is that Calarco has devised a curtain-raiser for the actual play called A Town Hall Meeting, monologue in which the effervescent Champlin plays “Our Host,” a modern-day woman who proffers cookies to theatregoers as she describes why she’s gathered them at her local middle school. She’s become aware of the mounting death toll in Iraq, thanks to George Stephanopoulos’ weekly Sunday broadcasts, and she hopes that she might motivate her neighbors to some sort of action about the war by hosting a staged reading of Shaw’s play."
-Theatremania
"Harrowing. The angry, searing pacifist drama feels as up-to-date and urgent as an incoming text message."
- Variety
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