About the Show

In a lone cabin, teens confront loss and growth at summer's Grief Camp in Hurt, Virginia.

Every summer in the small town of Hurt, Virginia, a remote cabin fills with young campers navigating the complexities of loss. Between homecooked breakfasts, the hum of box fans, and nights spent in quiet reflection, Grief Camp unfolds as an intimate exploration of growing up amid grief. This poignant story captures the journey of healing, self-discovery, and the bittersweet trials of adolescence.

Critic Reviews (7)

Les Waters’s staging of this play — Smith’s Off Broadway debut — for Atlantic Theater Company is marvelously realized, as much, at least, as Smith’s often maddening script allows.
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Grief Camp offers a strikingly unsentimental and thoughtful panorama of young people who refuse to let grief hold them back from living.
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"the play's narrative development is mostly in its title and that unsubtle location choice"
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Even the play’s brief 100-minute runtime can’t prevent the onset of ennui.
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Rather than using a straightforward plot, Smith presents a mosaic.
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Grief Camp, like the campers it depicts, is stuck in an inchoate space where it has not yet come to terms with all its issues.
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The ensemble engagingly portrays complex characters about to move on with their lives but not yet ready to face the world.
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Cast and creative team

Atlantic Theater Company