Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: "When it comes to mythic drama, you can't get more Gothic than Sam Shepard's 'Buried Child'.
The 1979 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, which is being performed through Feb. 21 by The Rep, Point Park University's professional theater company, is filled with dark themes and darker secrets."
2 comments:
It's rare that you hear about a the theatrical equivalent of a horror movie, and rarer that it actually attracts public interest. Buried Child while sounding wonderfully disturbing also seems to contain lots of challenges for any attempt made to perform the play. The comment that stuck out with me though came from the very end of the review, which is that the play lacked possible more horror and tension. Now, I understand how a play could come across as high tension, but the idea of more horror being present within a play seems like a real challenge that I have a hard time imagining anyone could achieve. Most of what makes modern horror movies as frightening as they are is the "pop out factor" that many seem to capitalize on or just an intense and almost excessive amount of gore. I would be interested in seeing a theatrical attempt at these horror movie staples.
I think that theater's direct job i to convey the emotons of the characters to the audience members. And often times fear is a extremely difficult emtion to transfer because of the whole exerince and the lack of close intimacy in many venues. In this particular instance, I belive that a lot of the fear is not found in the events, but rather in the charcters themselves.
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