BURIED CHILD
by Sam Shepard
If plays were put in time capsules, future generations would get a sharp-toothed profile of life in the U.S. in the past decade and a half from the works of Sam Shepard. His theme is betrayal, not so much of the American dream as of the inner health of the nation. He focuses on that point at which the spacious skies turned ominous with clouds of dread, and the amber waves of grain withered in industrial blight and moral dry rot.
This may sound doom-laden, but the plays are redeemed by irrepressible freshets of surreal humor. Buried Child,...
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