Bury the Dead

Transport Group's production of Bury the Dead was filmed for preservation by The Lincoln Center Theatre on Film and Tape Archives.

What the critics said:

"Impassioned revival" - NY Times

"Joe Calarco's excellent ensemble and designers masterfully blur and scramble the material...  Bury the Dead emerges as a social-realist stage poem on the tests that every generation faces, in war or in peace." - Time Out New York

"This searing drama feels as up-to-date and urgent as an incoming text message." - Variety

"Asked to help persuade the dead men to accept theirfate, their surviving loved ones reunite with them in a series of brief and powerful scenes, the best of which occurs between a mother and the son who was killed in an explosion.  Her silent anguish when he finally agrees to let her see his disfigured face is deeply moving." - NY Post

"In Transport Group's stylish production of Irwin Shaw's Bury the Dead, tears ran down my face." - Backstage

"Marvelous and affecting simplicity." - TheaterMania

"Slowly, [the characters] become immersed in the world and drama of this fictitious war -- as does the audience, thanks to the effective work of R. Lee Kennedy, whose dramatic lighting design allows the drama to shift from location to location with ease, and Michael Rasbury's soundscape, which alternates between the bombastic and the gently atmospheric." - TheatreMania 

"Kudos also to the extremely clever design team of Sandra Goldmark, R. Lee Kennedy, Kathryn Rohe, and Michael Rasbury; they take the facility from raw and simple at its most ordinary existence to a mythic, profound space that supports the play wonderfully." - New York Theatre