From: Dan Reichel <majormint2001@aol.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 4, 2018 2:55 AM
Subject: Buried Child Opens This Weekend
STS Theatre is proud to present Sam Shepard's award winning play:
"Buried Child"
The play performs Thursday through Sunday
April 5th - April 22nd, 2018
OPENING WEEKEND 50% OFF ADULT TICKET PRICE
FOR ALL FELLOW THEATRICAL PRACTITIONERS
AND IN SUPPORT OF EDUCATORS EVERYWHERE,
A FREE TICKET FOR ALL TEACHERS!!!
Community Playhouse
1891 N. Oracle Rd. Tucson, AZ
Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays @ 7:30 P.M.
Sundays @ 2 P.M.
$20 Adults, $15 Senior/Student/Military
$10 Group of 6+
To purchase tickets call Paul (520) 904-8054 or go to our www.ststheatre.org
To say that the action of Sam Shepard's 1978 Pulitzer prize-winning play revolves around the death of a child is hardly a plot spoiler. The title tells us everything, yet nothing. Sure, there was a child and it was buried; we learn where it lies and how it got there; we even get to know a bit about the why of its death. However, even though this is the big "secret" shared by four of the characters, Shepard's jagged dramatic form does not rely on suspense to rivet interest. Plot is less important than the complex, tortured relationships between the aged mother and father, their two adult sons, a visiting grandson, his girlfriend and a local priest.
Shepard's writing poses a challenge to actors. The vivid dialogue, its everyday language vibrating with mythic resonances, shuffles rapidly between comedy, horror and tragedy. These characters make split-second shifts from naturalism to grand guignol via melodrama.
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