The Thaumaturgy Department
Main Entry: thau·ma·turg
Pronunciation: \ˈthȯ-mə-ˌtərj\
Function: noun
Etymology: French, from New Latin thaumaturgus, from Greek thaumatourgos working miracles, from thaumat-, thauma miracle + ergon work — more at Theater, Work

The official blog of the Dramaturgy Department at Baltimore's CENTERSTAGE. For posts related to our current and upcoming shows, click the links to the right. Alternatively, you could begin at the beginning, and explore our posts in chronological order.
As with many things in life, it depends on several factors: the temperature and humidity, whether the body is in water or not, buried or not, underground or not, embalmed or not, exposed to insects or carnivores or not….
KEEP READING! After all, this becomes a central question in Martin McDonagh’s Skull in Connemara…
Getting ready for the macabre fun that is McDonagh’s A Skull in Connemara, with Irish regulations regarding “Exhumation of the remains of a deceased person.”
Here is at least one burial-related twist that does not show up in Martin McDonagh’s darkly hilarious Skull in Connemara, slated for production at CENTERSTAGE later this season. Not to worry, there are plenty of others that make it in.