Handcart Ensemble

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet Paul Muldoon on Handcart’s The Burial at Thebes

“I simply can’t imagine a better production of The Burial at Thebes. Handcart Ensemble is a spectacularly gifted group, absolutely equal to the subtleties of Heaney’s text. I’ll go anywhere to see anything they do.” —Paul Muldoon

Contact Us

How to Reach Handcart

If you have suggestions, comments, or questions, please feel free to call or send mail. Email is typically the fastest way to get a reply.

Handcart Ensemble
244 5th Avenue, #P269
New York, NY 10001-7604

(212) 726-8054

You may also send email directly to the artistic director, .

About Us

Old Wine in New Bottles

Handcart Ensemble produces new adaptations, new translations, and new works for the theater, drawing primarily from classical sources. Read our mission statement for more information.

From our photo archives

creon-haemon2.jpg
Creon and Haemon, with chorus. From The Burial at Thebes.

Handcart's Horizon

Watch here for details on productions planned for the coming year and seasons, which include a reading of Racine's Iphigenia in a glorious new translation by poet Rachel Hadas, a full production of Homer's Odyssey as adapted by poet Simon Armitage, and a startlingly orginal version of Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood (for which a teaser will appear in our December benefit of A Child's Christmas in Wales: Stories and Poems by Dylan Thomas); all from a company described as "the city’s most reliable and interesting presenter of contemporary renditions of classic theatre texts (NYTheatre.com)."

Copyright © 2001 - 2009 Handcart Ensemble. Last updated November 6, 2007