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''Buried Child'' is a play by Sam Shepard first presented in 1978. It won the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and launched Shepard to national fame as a playwright. Buried Child is a piece of theater which depicts the fragmentation of the American nuclear family in a context of disappointment and disillusionment with American mythology and the American dream, the 1970s rural economic slowdown and the breakdown of traditional family structures and values. | ''Buried Child'' is a play by Sam Shepard first presented in 1978. It won the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and launched Shepard to national fame as a playwright. Buried Child is a piece of theater which depicts the fragmentation of the American nuclear family in a context of disappointment and disillusionment with American mythology and the American dream, the 1970s rural economic slowdown and the breakdown of traditional family structures and values. | ||
(Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buried_Child). | (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buried_Child). | ||
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| + | In South Africa the play was produced by the [[Market Theatre]], starring [[Neville Thomas]], | ||
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Buried Child is a play by Sam Shepard first presented in 1978. It won the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and launched Shepard to national fame as a playwright. Buried Child is a piece of theater which depicts the fragmentation of the American nuclear family in a context of disappointment and disillusionment with American mythology and the American dream, the 1970s rural economic slowdown and the breakdown of traditional family structures and values. (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buried_Child).
In South Africa the play was produced by the Market Theatre, starring Neville Thomas,
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