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Buried Child

Sam Shepard’s 1979 Pulitzer-winning play, Buried Child, is a choking, claustrophobic drama about menace, secrets, incest, insanity, and estrangement. Staged with five antagonists in an Illinois farmhouse, Buried Child is a lyrical powder keg of suppressed shame and sin. It’s a pity, then, that Third Eye Theatre is in far over its head, even as […]

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