Play Listing: Buried Child
| Play Name: | Buried Child |
| Description: | Winner of the 1979 Pulitzer Prize, this powerful and brilliant play probes deep into the disintegration of the American Dream. The setting is a once Norman Rockwell-esque, but now squalid farmhouse occupied by a family filled with suppressed violence. The inhabitants are a cantankerous whiskey-swilling grandfather; a pious grandmother who goes on drinking binges with the local minister; and their sons: Tilden, a former All-American footballer who's now a hulking semi-idiot; and Bradley, who has lost one leg to a chain saw. Into their midst comes Vince, a grandson none of them recognizes or remembers, and his girlfriend, Shelly, who cannot comprehend the lunacy into which she is suddenly introduced. The family harbors a dark, tightly-held domestic secret, which Shelly probes to unravel, while mysterious crops suddenly start to appear out back in the fields.
Artistic Director Clyde Simon, an affirmed Sam Shepard enthusiast (previous convergence productions include Shepard's The Unseen Hand, Action, La Turista, States of Shock) directs. With Buried Child he takes a fresh look at Sam Shepard's magical and mysterious contemporary classic, an American family saga that jolts between domestic humor and gothic horror. |
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| Play Name: | Cleveland |
| Description: | Synopsis: In the heady days before her prom, young Joan finds it hard to concentrate on anything but the upcoming dance, even as the front porch falls off her house and her mother struggles to unclog the kitchen sink. But soon, their relatively normal lives begin unravelling into alien territory, as Joan makes some startling discoveries about her family and the world. |
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| Play Name: | Demon Baby |
| Description: | Synopsis: Wren and Art are looking forward to the opportunity of a lifetime when his job relocates him to a new country. The only problem is that Wren's afraid to leave the house. As Wren's alienation takes on a supernatural form, no ones identity is safe in this shape shifting dark comedy. |
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| Play Name: | Each Day Dies with Sleep |
| Description: | Rivera discusses the experiences he went through as a Puerto Rican in a small American town, with an emphasis on family, sexuality, spirituality and the occult. |
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| Play Name: | Finn in the Underworld |
| Description: | In this contemporary Gothic tale, Gwen and her sister Rhoda are packing up the belongings -- and the secrets -- in their crooked childhood house. When Gwen's wayward son Finn arrives to harvest the more fashionable heirlooms, he meets a neighbor who is not what he seems. Finn's sexual curiosity draws him down into the fallout shelter, and into the heart of an unfinished ghost story. A sexually-charged thriller about what can happen when grief goes unspoken. "There is something deliciously creepy about Jordan Harrison's new play, Finn in the Underworld, a time-bending little thriller that reveals family secrets, real or imagined." ---Contra Costa Times |
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