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Sam Shepard's Buried Child presented by ATSF (Event Over)

  • When:Every Thursday 5/22/08 - 7/12/08 (8PM)
  • Where: Actors Theatre
  • Address: 855 Bush St. San Francisco, CA   Map
  • Cost: 30
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Actors Theatre of San Francisco Presents Pulitzer Prize Winning American Classic:

Buried Child

By SAM SHEPARD

Directed by Christian Phillips & Jennifer Welch

When:   Previews Thursday, May 22, 2008. 
            Opens Friday, May 23, 2008.
            Plays Thursday through Saturday evenings at 8PM .
            Closes Saturday July 12, 2008.

Where:
    Actors Theatre of San Francisco
               855 Bush St, Between Mason and Taylor
               San Francisco, CA 94108

Tickets
:    General $30 (Opening Night Champagne Gala $35.)
                Students and Seniors $20
                Thursday shows priced on a Sliding Scale from $10 to $30.

Box Office: (415) 345-1287 or online at www.ticketweb.com

More Info:
www.actorstheatresf.org

The Play:    In 1979 Buried Child won the first Pulitzer Prize for Drama ever awarded to a play premiering Off-Broadway, propelling Shepard into the national spotlight. Exploring a dark side of the American Dream, the play chronicles three generations of a Midwestern family struggling against each other, some denying and repressing a past others are desperate to reveal, all haunted by the sudden fertility of their long-barren fields. From its darkly humorous opening to an implosive final act, the play examines the corrosive effects of a long-held secret in a family ravaged by guilt and shame.

Buried Child premiered a t Theater for the New City in New York City on October 19, 1978.  Harold Clurman wrote, in The Nation, "What strikes the ear and eye is comic, occasionally hilarious behavior and speech at which one laughs while remaining slightly puzzled and dismayed (if not resentful), and perhaps indefinably saddened. Yet there is a swing to it all, a vagrant freedom, a tattered song."

The Cast: features Jack Halton as Dodge, Margel Kaufman as Halie, Dean Shreiner as Tilden, Todd O'Connor as Bradley, Phaedra Starr as Shelly, Michael Carlisi as Vince and John Krause as Father Dewis.

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