Conversations After A Burial
by Christopher Hampton, Yasmina Reza

Name: Conversations After A Burial
Brand: Christopher Hampton
SKU: 9780571204410
Rating: 3.25 (460 reviews)

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French

What readers are saying

Readers appreciate the depth and humor in this play, praising Yasmina Reza for her ability to capture complex emotions within brief dialogues. Many feel that the work, despite its short length, offers insightful reflections on familial relationships and grief. There is a sense of admiration for the author's craft, although some believe it may not be her best work.

Witty and engaging dialogueInsightful exploration of griefComplex characters and relationshipsSome found it too shortNot her strongest piece

Synopsis

From the Author of The Tony Award-Winning Art

, a Moving Play About Family and Memory

Simon Weinberg is dead.

And, on a November morning, he is buried in accordance with his wishes on the Loiret family estate.

Gathered together at his funeral are six people--brothers and sisters, lovers, husbands and wives.

Mourning allows them special privilege and, for a few hours, they are isolated in another world under a lingering sun, in the shadow of the deceased.

Conversations After a Burial explores that ineffable moment of mourning, wherein the newly deceased is still almost palpable, the moment in which one can still maintain the memory of a breath, the intense moment between the absence and the return to every day existence, between loss and life