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Sheila Callaghan’s pleasingly witty and theatrical new drama that is a love letter to New York masquerading as hate mail…. [Callaghan] writes with a world-weary tone and has a poet’s gift for economical description. The entire dead city comes alive…” -New York TImes.
Sheila Callaghan's pleasingly witty and theatrical new drama that is a love letter to New York masquerading as hate mail... [Callaghan] writes with a world-weary tone and has a poet's gift for economical description. The entire dead city comes alive... – The New York Times.
Jun 16, 2006 · With the 102nd anniversary of Bloomsday approaching, Sheila Callaghan, whose latest play roughly follows the outline of "Ulysses," takes a Joycean tour of the city.
dead city Dates, times, and settings will be projected above the stage, or on a screen, or on the proscenium wings, or on the floor, or wherever is most effective for viewing.
Overview. It's June 16, 2004. Samantha Blossom, a chipper woman in her 40s, wakes up one June morning in her Upper East Side apartment to find her life being narrated over the airwaves of public radio. She discovers in the mail an envelope addressed to her husband from his lover, which spins her raw and untethered into an odyssey through the ...
Jul 21, 2009 · A complex middle-aged protagonist, deadened by experiences and compromises, engages in an eventful day of episodic wandering in a major city. Sheila Callaghan’s Dead City, a modern riff on James Joyce’s “Ulysses” is a witty piece that succeeds as a satirical adventure and a moving character study.
Jun 2, 2006 · But even its space-shuttle-like lobby doesn't prepare you for the ride that is "Dead City," Sheila Callaghan's pleasingly witty and theatrical new drama that is a love letter...
