Sweet and Sad, the title of the second play in Richard Nelson's Apple Family Plays, comes from Walt Whitman's "The Wound Dresser," a poem he wrote in reflection on the time he served as a nurse during the Civil War. In Washington, DC, he daily cared for the wounded, both the recovering and the fatally so. Nelson's […]
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 01:04AM on November 27, 2013