Bury the Dead Director's Chat

Anti-War Drama Coming to Theatre UCF

Theatre UCF presents Irwin Shaw's Bury the Dead in the University of Central Florida Black Box from February 16-26.

Bury the Dead is an anti-war play about six soldiers killed in the line of duty who stand up in their graves and refuse to be buried. As their superiors fail at getting the soldiers to obey orders, the media starts to react, and so the deceased's loved ones are brought to the graves. The soldiers explain their reasons for refusing to lie down in a series of touching monologues.

The setting of the play is "the second year of the war that is to begin tomorrow." Though written in 1936, the themes of the soldiers' monologues are still current. They discuss the futility of war, the tender relationships between couples, the pain of dying before one's life has been lived.

Theatre Students Win First Place, Take Honors at Festival

Theatre UCF is pleased to announce that students from UCF received high honors at the Kennedy Center/American College Theater Region IV Festival. The festival was held at Daytona State College in Daytona Beach at the beginning of February.