Buried Child, Sam Shepard
The act destroyed the family. Dodge stopped planting crops in his fields and took on smoking, drinking, and watching television from a lumpy old sofa. Halie, apparently seeking salvation, turned to religion with fervor. She spouts Christian platitudes and cavorts with the hypocritical Father Dewis. Tilden went insane with guilt and grief, spent time in jail in New Mexico and has only recently returned to the farmstead, perhaps to set everything right. The secret is drawn out into the light of day, and the family curse apparently lifted, with the arrival of Vince, Tilden’s estranged son, and his girlfriend, Shelly.
Isolation From The Outside World
In “Buried Child”, the play is full of fear, regret, and guilt. By considering the family’s back yard as taboo, they isolate themselves not only from this place, where they buried their dead child, but also from Vince and Shelly, their neighbor s, police, and weather, who have become outsiders to them.
By using layered wood panels, the character’s home is distorted from its original structure and becomes a space that does not allow interruption from the outside world.
Isolation From The Outside World
In “Buried Child”, the play is full of fear, regret, and guilt. By considering the family’s back yard as taboo, they isolate themselves not only from this place, where they buried their dead child, but also from Vince and Shelly, their neighbor s, police, and weather, who have become outsiders to them.
By using layered wood panels, the character’s home is distorted from its original structure and becomes a space that does not allow interruption from the outside world.
