November 3rd BURY THE DEAD Talkback to Include Groff, Champlin and More

Transport Group, the winner of a special 2007 Drama Desk Award and a 2007 Obie Award, has announced a series of talkbacks and special events for its production of the first major New York revival of Irwin Shaw’s Bury the Dead, directed by Joe Calarco.  Performances begin Friday, October 31, at 220 East 4 Street, between Avenues A and B (6 to Astor Place, W/N to 8th Street or F/V to Second Avenue).  The opening has been scheduled for Sunday, November 9, at 3pm.

Monday, November 3, 8pm:

TALKBACK - Theater-As-Protest: A discussion of current, politically-charged productions
Featuring special guests:
Jonathan Groff (Actor, The Public Theater’s Hair)
Daniel Rigazzi (Assistant Director, The Public Theater’s Hair)
Marilynn Donini (Representing St. Ann’s Warehouse’s Black Watch)
Donna Lynne Champlin (Actor, TG’s Bury the Dead)
Joe Calarco (Director, TG’s Bury the Dead)
Panel moderated by Adam R. Perlman, TG Literary Manager

Irwin Shaw’s harrowing 1936 classic 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) directs Shaw’s legendary anti-war play.

The cast of Bury the Dead is Jeremy Beck, Fred Berman, Mandell Butler, Donna Lynne Champlin (OBIE Award winner for Transport Group’s The Dark at the Top of the Stairs), Jake Hart, Jeff Pucillo, and Matt Sincell.

Bury the Dead plays Thursday through Saturday and Monday at 8pm, Saturday at 2pm, and Sunday at 3pm through Sunday, November 23, at 220 East 4 Street, between Avenues A & B (6 to Astor Place, W/N to 8th Street or F/V to Second Avenue).  There is only an evening performance on Saturday, November 1 and there is an added performance on Wednesday, November 5, at 8pm.  The evening performance on Saturday, November 8 is at 7pm.  Tickets are $38 and are available at www.transportgroup.org or by phoning TheaterMania at (212) 352-3101; $10 rush tickets are available to students one hour prior to curtain.  For more information about Transport Group and Bury the Dead, visit www.transportgroup.org.

Photo Credit Walter McBride/Retna Ltd.

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