ACTORS THEATRE
OF SAN FRANCISCO
ACTORS THEATRE OF SAN FRANCISCO
855 BUSH STREET
SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94108
United States
ph: 415-345-1287
fax: 707-748-4327
alt: 415-345-9582
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Now Playing
Thursdays-Saturdays 8PM
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The Rose Tattoo 2007 designed by Biz DuncanThe Actors Theatre and Howells Transmitter production of Buried Child features original music from from the following artists:
ray's vast basement laura gibson
horsefeathers two sheds
dame satan jackpot
tim cohen snowblink
campo bravo garrett pierce
To hear the fabulous music in Buried Child follow this link:
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 at 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."
Buried Child premiered at 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."
ACTORS THEATRE OF SAN FRANCISCO
855 BUSH STREET
SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94108
United States
ph: 415-345-1287
fax: 707-748-4327
alt: 415-345-9582
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