Buried Child
February 1 - 22, 2009
By: Sam Shepard
Directed by: Peter Hinton
Presented by KPMG
Set on a run-down farm in the Midwest, Buried Child revolves around the unannounced homecoming of a long-lost grandson. Vincent brings his girlfriend home to meet his folks–the only problem is the pristine exterior of his grandparents’ farmhouse belies the disintegration of the family within and the terrible secret they’re hiding. Sam Shepard is considered to be one of America’s finest living playwrights and Buried Child is the play that launched his fame. the tale, a funny yet scathing commentary on the dysfunctional American family, remains powerful to this day.
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Listen to Peter Hinton's interview with the CBC's Jeanette Kelly
Listen to Christie Watson's Interview with Radio Centre Ville's Stan Asher
Listen to Buried Child discussed in an interview on CFMB with the Centre's Marketing and Communications Director, Ben Gonshor.
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BEHIND THE SCENES
In writing his plays, Shepard disavowed the narrative convention that required consistent character motivations, preferring instead to see his characters as capable of a wide variety of roles and actions. Shepard once told an interviewer that, ‘I preferred a character that was constantly unidentifiable, shifting through the actor, so that the actor could play almost anything, and the audience was never expected to identify with the characters. (from www.sam-shepard.com)
DID YOU KNOW?
Written in 1977, Buried Child launched celebrated American actor Sam Shepard’s fame as a dramatist and won him the Pulitzer Prize in 1979. He also received an Academy Award nomination in 1983 for his portrayal of Chuck Yeager in the film The Right Stuff.
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