Buried Child
Buried Child is a play by Sam Shepard first presented in 1978 in San Francisco. It won the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and launched Shepard to national fame as a playwright. Buried Child is a piece of theatre 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.
Performance history in South Africa
In South Africa the play was presented by the Market Theatre Company Upstairs at the Market in 1982, starring Neville Thomas (Bradley), Jeremy Crutchley (Vince), Dale Cutts (Father Dewis), Frantz Dobrowsky (Dodge), Wilson Dunster (Tilden), Gay Lambert (Halie), Bo Petersen (Shelly). Directed by Lucille Gillwald, designed by Patti Slavin, lighting design by Patrick Miller.
Translations and adaptations
Sources
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buried_Child
Buried Child theatre programme, 1982.
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