Education:
Oakwood Cemetery Series
Every fall, Burning Coal Theatre presents a series of short plays from Raleigh and Triangle playwrights as outdoor theatre.
Content Warning for Oakwood 2024: Discussions of war
THIS YEAR'S PLAY & PROGRAM
Bringing Them Home
Click here for the digital program (Coming soon)
Adapted by Abbe Fralix from the book “Bringing Them Home” by Bruce G. Miller and Robin Simonton
BRINGING THEM HOME, by Oakwood Historians Bruce G. Miller and Robin Simonton, tells the stories of the boys who died in war, and the families who fought to bring their remains home. The soldiers buried in Oakwood fought under different flags, in different wars, and for different reasons, but they all had one thing in common…the story of their lives was cut short and we are left with the question of “what might have been?”
Content Warning: Discussions of war
Read more about the book that inspired this play on the Oakwood Cemetery website.
WHEN AND WHERE CAN I SEE THE PERFORMANCES?
ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE
The 2024 Oakwood Cemetery Plays are held on September 27 – 28, 2024 at 6:30 pm and September 29, 2024 at 2 pm
TICKETS are $20 (adults) and $10 (students) and are available at our online ticket sales (click here) or by calling 919.834.4001.
This is a fundraising event for Burning Coal. All ticket sales go directly support Burning Coal’s 2022/23 Season. Your ticket will be a tax-deductible contribution.
LOCATION 701 Oakwood Ave, Raleigh, NC 27601. You may drive into the cemetery and you will find our ticket table 100 yards up the driveway.
For additional information, please call 919.834.4001.
WHAT IS THE OAKWOOD CEMETERY SERIES?
Every fall, Burning Coal Theatre partners with the historic Oakwood Cemetery to present a plays based on the lives of people buried in the Oakwood Cemetery, their partners, neighbors, associates and nemeses’.
The historic figures represented in our plays are selected through annual recommendations from the cemetery’s historians. When writing the plays, we aim to create characters based closely on historical evidence with an objective of educating the public about Raleigh’s local history. Playwrights will also include fictional elements to support their story.
Playwrights from around the Triangle and sometimes beyond will craft these short plays that look at the comical, the tragic, the dastardly and the utterly heroic lives of those who came before and upon whose shoulders, for better and for worse, the Capital City was built.
MEET THE CREATIVE TEAM
Check back later for details on the creatives behind the production!