Buried Child
From: Tuesday, 8th March 2011
To: Sunday, 3 April 2011
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Synopsis
There's certainly no place like home in this nightmarish family reunion. Vince and new girlfriend Shelley arrive at the remote farmhouse and walk straight into a terrifying night to remember. Why doesn't anyone know who Vince is? A dark and sinister secret is set to be revealed.
Our Review:
14 March 2011
An elderly man in a baseball cap sits on a squalid sofa in an exhausted living room, watching TV and personifying irritation as his wife gabbles cheerfully from another room. Gradually, other members of the family appear: a strangely disturbed middle-aged son with armfuls of freshly picked corn, another son with one leg and a manic look about him. Mother goes off to see her priest. Father grumbles with splenetic gusto then sleeps. First son steals his whiskey. Suddenly a young man and his beautiful girlfriend arrive, bringing a gust of freshness to the dilapidated scene. Then, all hell breaks loose.
From unpromising material, Sam Shepard forges a titanic tale of collapsing rural America, encapsulated in a family of breathtaking dysfunctionality. Now 30 years old, Buried Child emphatically still works as a critique of the American Dream and its inability to stand up to reality. Through the perspective of the girlfriend, Shelly, in a sharp performance by [Ta...
Creative
Sam Shepard (Author)
Racky Plews (for Ovation) (Producer)
Timothy Trimingham Lee (Director)
Martin Thomas (Design)
Howard Hudson (Lighting)
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