Event Listing - Theater
Fri May 23 - Sat Jul 12

Actors Theatre of San Francisco Presents Pulizer Prize Winning American Classic

BURIED CHILD

by Sam Shepard


Tel. 415-345-1287
Email BURIED CHILD
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$10 - $30
Tickets
Box Office: 415-345-1287

Location
Date and Time
Actors Theatre - San Francisco
855 Bush Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
district: Union Square/San Francisco Centre

Fri May 23 (8PM)
Sat May 24 (8PM)
Thu May 29 (8PM)
Fri May 30 (8PM)
Sat May 31 (8PM)

Description
In 1979 Buried Child won the first Pulitzer Prize for Drama ever awarded to a play premiering Off-Broadway, propelling Shepard into the national spotlight. Exploring a dark side of the American Dream, the play chronicles three generations of a Midwestern family struggling against each other, some denying and repressing a past others are desperate to reveal, all haunted by the sudden fertility of their long-barren fields. From its darkly humorous opening to an implosive final act, the play examines the corrosive effects of a long-held secret in a family ravaged by guilt and shame.

Buried Child premiered at Theater for the New City in New York City on October 19, 1978. Harold Clurman wrote, in The Nation, "What strikes the ear and eye is comic, occasionally hilarious behavior and speech at which one laughs while remaining slightly puzzled and dismayed (if not resentful), and perhaps indefinably saddened. Yet there is a swing to it all, a vagrant freedom, a tattered song."