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Buried Child
Southern Theater
1420 Washington Ave S Minneapolis
Sam Shepard is a prolific film actor (Steel Magnolias, The Notebook ) and playwright (Fool For Love, True West); for its inaugural production at The Southern Theater, Minneapolis' Red Bird Theatre has selected Shepard's dark, Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Buried Child, about a violently dysfunctional Midwestern family and their deeply hidden secrets. The three-act play embodies everything that's great about Shepard's work: dramatic realism laced with touches of surrealism, American Gothic style, social commentary and black comedy. There's nobody quite like Shepard in the history of American theater, and Red Bird Theatre is ready to showcase his considerable talent with its stirring rendition of his masterpiece, Buried Child, complete with some of your favorite local actors and beautifully detailed stage production.
Thru - Jun 19, 2016
Price: $24
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Buried Child Reviews
| Talkin Broadway - Recommended
"...Sam Shepard's Pulitzer Prize winning play Buried Child is being given a sharply etched production by Red Bird Theatre at the Southern Theater. Red Bird is among the newest Twin Cities theater companies and its choice of play allows it to demonstrate one of its stated core values: "respect for the source material, artists and audience." As directed by Genevieve Bennett, who is Red Bird's Artistic Director, Shepard's script receives a strong and authentic reading that brings vividly to life the nightmares and longings of each member of a dysfunctional family. Of course, in Sam Shepard country, to describe a family as dysfunctional is redundant. Still, the strength of the Red Bird production is in according a degree of respect for each character's unique misery, as laid out in Shepard's spider web of a plot."
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