The Dream of the Burning Boy
by David West Read

"Sensitive…surprisingly humorous…Read has an ear for economical, real-sounding dialogue, creating believable and moving characters.” —Associated Press. “Eloquent, affecting…moving.” —The New York Times. ”David West Read doesn't just summon one vision of grief: he unlocks six. All different and yet all the same, they drive this lean…work that plumbs bottomless sadness as few plays in recent memory have. Read lets these people tell their own stories in their own words—both those they can spit out and, even more frequently, those they can't. The results aren't always pretty or precisely ordered, but death's nature is to impose temporary disorder on those left behind. It's in how the remaining characters learn that, and learn to progress beyond it, that is the real point."

— Talkin' Broadway