Conversations After a Burial: A Play by Yasmina Reza
Conversations After a Burial: A Play by Yasmina Reza
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Author(s): Yasmina Reza
Pub: Faber & Faber
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ISBN: 9780571204410 - New
203mm x 133mm x 12mm
Publication: 31 January 2001Pages: 80
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