American Repertory Theatre
 
Buried Child by Sam Shepard, Directed by Marcus Stern, was performed January 4 - February 5, 1996 at the Loeb Drama Center

Sam Shepard was renowned as one of America's most accomplished playwrights well before he gained celebrity as a film star. No native dramatist since O'Neill has probed so deeply the core of American pop mythology and set it on a collision course with the realities of American life. Buried Child explores the inner tensions of a rural existence, father-son relationships, and the place women hold in an increasingly ambiguous domestic atmosphere. Starkly poetic, humorous, and mysterious, Buried Child is a vision of a dysfunctional family transformed into a symbol of America's loss of innocence. The work earned its author a Pulitzer Prize in 1979.

Jeremy Geidt

... Dodge

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Georgine Hall

... Halie

Jack Willis

... Tilden

set design

... Allison Koturbash

Charles Levin

... Bradley

costume design

... Catherine Zuber

Remo Airaldi

... Father Dewis

lighting design

... John Ambrosone

Benjamin Evett

... Vince

sound design

... Christopher Walker
... Marcus Stern

Phoebe Jonas

... Shelly

Synopsis: Vince arrives unannounced at the Illinois farmhouse of his grandparents Dodge and Halie after six years of separation from his family. He has brought his girlfriend Shelly to meet them. But his family proves to be a bizarre group who barely know who he is. In trying to make sense of the situation, Shelly uncovers the deeply buried family secrets that have destroyed these people's lives.

 

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