Buried Child
Buried Child Author: Sam Shepard
First Performance: 1978, San Francisco
Published: 1979; rev. 1995
Genre: Drama in 3 acts
Setting: Living area of farm, Illinois, 1970s
Cast: 5m, 2f
Dodge, a sickly alcoholic in his seventies, bickers with his wife Halie, some 10 years his junior. Their oldest son Tilden, a simple-minded former athlete in his forties, has come home after some ‘trouble’ in New Mexico. He has a younger brother Bradley, who lost his leg in a chainsaw accident, but his mother mourns for her son Ansel, a soldier, whose death she blames on his Catholic bride. Dodge denies being Tilden's and Bradley's father, insisting that
his child is buried in the back yard. Halie leaves for lunch with Father Dewis, and Tilden slips out when his father falls asleep. Bradley appears and begins cutting his...
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