[NEohioPAL] BURIED CHILD by Sam Shepard at LCCC

[Jeremy Benjamin]

Lorain County Community College ‘s Theatre Program presents “Buried Child”
at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, November 16, 17 and 18 at the
Stocker Arts Center in the Cirigliano Studio Theatre.  The production is
directed by Terence Cranendonk.



The powerful and brilliant Pulitzer Prize winning play by Sam Shepard
probes deep into the disintegration of the American Dream. The play is set
in a squalid farm home occupied by a family filled with suppressed violence
and an unease born of deep-seated unhappiness. The characters are a ranting
alcoholic grandfather; a sanctimonious grandmother who goes on drinking
bouts with the local minister; and their sons, Tilden, an All-American
footballer 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 madness
to which she is suddenly introduced. The family harbors a dark secret—years
earlier the grandfather, Dodge, had buried an unwanted newborn baby in an
undisclosed spot, creating a cloud of guilt which is dispelled only when
Tilden unearths the child's mummified remains and carries it upstairs to
his mother. His act purges the family, at last, of its infamy and suggests
the perhaps slim possibility of a new beginning under Vince, whose
estrangement from the others has spared him the taint of their sin.



Tickets are $9 for adults and $8 for LCCC students, staff and seniors 65
and up.  Cost is $7 per person for groups of 15 or more. For tickets, or
more information, call the Stocker Arts Center Box Office at (440) 366-4040
or visit stockerartscenter.com.



This production is produced by special arrangement with Dramatists Play
Service, Inc. Stocker Arts Center is located on the campus of Lorain County
Community College at 1005 North Abbe Road, Elyria, Ohio. Parking on the
campus is free.
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