"All plays, just like all literature, are essentially propaganda."
-- Clifford Odets
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May 1st,
2003
Our second annual May Day
presentation landed with poetic irony on the very day that George W.
Bush grandiloquently announced the supposed triumph of his illegal invasion of
Iraq. For this auspicious occasion we just had to hold a staged
reading of Irwin Shaw's haunting anti-war epic BURY THE DEAD.
Written in 1936, the only other time this play was
performed 'round these parts was in 1940 by the now non-existent Buffalo
Contemporary Theatre. An all-but-forgotten gem of American protest
theatre, BURY THE DEAD is set "two years into the war that
begins tomorrow night" and depicts mortally wounded soldiers
rising from mass graves demanding someone account for their deaths.
Our stage reading of BURY THE DEAD was held in the
backroom of Allentown's Rust Belt Books.
Click
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