It’s summer in Hurt, Virginia, where a lone cabin fills each year with campers. There's homecooked breakfast and an army of box fans and lots of shifting in the dark. Welcome to Grief Camp: a study of loss and adolescence.
Grief Camp creates a vivid, fully inhabited world and assembles conditions ripe for drama, but never shapes them into a story. Without conflict or progression, the play drifts, looping through the passing days. And really, instead of these kids, I left thinking of Bill Murray.
It’s a remarkably lived-in play. You have the sense that Smith built her world in granular detail, establishing a hefty biography for each camper, tracking everyone’s location at all times over the 15-day span of the action. The design enhances this sense of place and the lazy, dreamy passing of time... Grief Camp is a banquet of perfectly meshed design, fully inhabited by the lovable, convincing cast.
| 2025 | Off-Broadway |
Atlantic Theater Company World Premiere Off-Broadway |
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