Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: "For Steve Mendillo, Sam Shepard's play 'Buried Child' has all the complexity of Shakespearean drama.
'It's a major piece of work because it's a large canvas, a big play with totally different elements. It's profound, funny, profane. It encompasses a lot. It's about the American family, estrangement, infidelity,' says Mendillo, who plays Dodge. 'It's like Shakespeare. You could do it five times and just be discovering it.'"
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It's interesting to see how popular this idea of the failing American dream/family concept is. It's been the forefront of American theater since Arthur Miller (though I'm sure many wrote of the matter before him). Today this concept, especially in a bad economy, of the fallen American Dream is everywhere. I wonder if the dream ever really existed, or if this tide of theatre will just keep cycling in every time there's a new economic crisis.In particular this play seems to be discussing the failure of a typical, very stressed American family system. What makes the American so much different or much more of a failure than other nations? That's what i'd like to see from this production.
What drew me to this article is the fact that this is a Sam Shepard play. I had never read any of his work until recently, namely 'True West'. I found it interesting that this play was actually very closely related to that of 'True West' with that concept of the American family not being all it is cracked up to be. I personally enjoyed his other work so I am thinking that I will like this one as well. But to answer Mary's question about what makes the American family failure so much more evocative to us as compared to that of failure in other nations in my opinion is that it is human nature to pass something unfortunate off because it could never happen to you, but when there is something that shows that it does, it hits closer to home
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