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

Reviews

Oedipus at Colonus

January 2008

NYTheatre.com
Talkin’ Broadway

Alcestis

April/May 2007

NYTheatre.com

The Burial at Thebes

September 2006

NYTheatre.com

Two Yeats Plays

March/April 2006

NYTheatre.com

Coole Lady

April 2005

NYTheatre.com
W.B. Yeats Society of NY

Ordet

March 2004

CurtainUp
NYTheatre.com

Genesis

June 2003

NYTheatre.com

David & Bathsheba

November 2001

NYTheatre.com
Off-Off-Broadway Review

The Mistress of the Inn

March 2001

NYTheatre.com
Off-Off-Broadway Review

The Wild Ass’s Skin

August 2000

NYTheatre.com
Off-Off-Broadway Review

Andromaque

August 1999

Off-Off-Broadway Review

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

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Creon and Haemon, with chorus. From The Burial at Thebes.

Gearing Up for 2008/09

Thanks to our patrons for supporting Oedipus at Colonus, touted by NYTheatre.com as “another feather in Handcart’s cap as the city’s most reliable and interesting presenter of contemporary renditions of classic theatre texts.” Our one-night benefit performance of W.B. Yeats’s Purgatory was another success, its sell-out box office returns laying the groundwork for an ambitious 2008/09 season that will include Dylan Thomas’s Under Milk Wood as you’ve never seen it before. Watch for more details on this thrillingly crafted production, arriving in New York after years of development and acclaim at international theater festivals…

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