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Guest Blog: Director Rafaella Marcus On BURY THE DEAD
by Marianka Swain - Oct 24, 2018
'There is no better way of forgetting something than by commemorating it.' That's not from Bury the Dead, Irwin Shaw's 1936 expressionist anti-war play, but from Alan Bennett's The History Boys. The boys in question are clustered around a First World War memorial, learning, for the first time, a narrative that implicates Britain. 'So much for Our Glorious Dead,' says one of them.
by Marianka Swain - Oct 24, 2018
'There is no better way of forgetting something than by commemorating it.' That's not from Bury the Dead, Irwin Shaw's 1936 expressionist anti-war play, but from Alan Bennett's The History Boys. The boys in question are clustered around a First World War memorial, learning, for the first time, a narrative that implicates Britain. 'So much for Our Glorious Dead,' says one of them.
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