Land Of The Dead

If the question is whether or not Land of the Dead is insensitive or shouldn't have been performed when it was: then the answer is an absolute no. Yes, 9/11 is a very sensitive subject and it touched all of our lives in many different ways, but that doesn't mean we should shun LeBute's production because it makes use of that subject matter. In the week's after 9/11, many artists and song-writers started painting and composing songs in requiem, tribute, and patriotic pride based around that day. What makes their paintings and songs any more acceptable than this play? Why should we accept their paintings as works of art and praise them for the emotions they portray but tell the writer of this play that he's gone "too far"? I believe that we as a public need to view this play as the equivalent to the artists' painting. This was LeBute's way of expressing and portraying his emotions and thoughts about that day. Just as the painter painted - the playwright wrote - and they both created masterpieces that we should view, accept, and maybe even cherish as art forms that help to make this country strong in the aftermath of a terrible tragedy.