Buried Child previews
Buried Child previews
theateraddiction
Understudy Joined: 2/20/15
#1Buried Child previews
Posted: 2/3/16 at 7:58am
Was anyone at the 1st preview of this show last night?
#2Buried Child previews
Posted: 2/3/16 at 8:03am
It's hard to believe it's been 20 years since the production at the Atkinson. And that it only ran 72 performances. Harder to believe that it's been 37 years since I first saw this play (in an excellent regional production).
#3Buried Child previews
Posted: 2/3/16 at 8:05am
I saw it about that long ago as well in a terrific regional production. It was devastating. Curious how this will sit with audiences now.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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After Eight
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/09
#4Buried Child previews
Posted: 2/9/16 at 3:00am
Once upon a time, the playwright was the ultimate critics' darling: accolades galore, hype, awards --- you know the deal. Now it's the sunset of a new day, and there are new critics' darlings, with the same accolades, etc. --- you know that deal, as well. Only too well!
Now, with revivals of two Shepard plays this season, they appear as the sorry items they are. No doubt, the same fate will one day befall the fetid output of today's darlings. But in the meantime, the poor audience suffers through these trials in a nonstop nightmare.
As for the clumsy, lumpen opus in question, it's quite the slog at two hours without intermission. Ed Harris acquits himself well, while some of the cast members are still finding their way. But then, what are they finding their way to? It's like wandering through a desert only to arrive at ... another desert.
BeadleDeedle
Featured Actor Joined: 10/10/12
#5Buried Child previews
Posted: 2/9/16 at 5:18am
Nah, you're just not smart enough to engage with the piece. Much simpler to write another elegant diatribe celebrating your own "cleverness". Artists and students have been dissecting/performing the Pulitzer Prize winning Buried Child for almost 40 years. It's not just a critic's darling. Your "review" is ridiculous. Unspecific and repeating ad nauseam the usual vitriol you save for works of this era that are outside your grasp.
After Eight
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/09
#6Buried Child previews
Posted: 2/9/16 at 7:59am
"Unspecific and repeating ad nauseam the usual vitriol you save for works of this era that are outside your grasp."
Unfortunate are the luckless souls caught in ITS grasp ---- for two painful hours. Take it from me, it hurts!
#7Buried Child previews
Posted: 2/9/16 at 8:13am
Were you intentionally illustrating an example there?
#8Buried Child previews
Posted: 2/11/16 at 4:24pm
After Eight wrote: "As for the clumsy, lumpen opus in question…"
Lumpen opus as in "lumpen proletariat"? I don't agree that BURIED CHILD or even THE CURSE OF THE STARVING CLASS are plays about working class resentment. If anything, they're existential Beat poetics which can be far more meandering, actionless and opaque than plays about underclass rage which actually have class conflicts to animate them. Actionless drama is not everyone's cup of tea, that's for sure.
I am tickled by your stored up, long nursed, resentment towards critics' darlings of yesteryear. I have it too, my friend, but I fight it like the devil. I wish you gut schadenfreude in finally proving what suckers we all were to fall under the spell of Mr. Shepard's druggy, poetic, very American theater.
Updated On: 2/11/16 at 04:24 PM
Fantod
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/3/14
#9Buried Child previews
Posted: 2/18/16 at 12:52am
Critics are not particularly impressed
http://thecriticsdecide.blogspot.com/2016/02/buried-child.html
#10Buried Child previews
Posted: 2/18/16 at 3:54pm
Fantod, is that your website? It's super promising, and I hope it continues. I still miss Stage Grade, so cruelly taken over and deleted by the folks behind the wildly ineffective DidHeLikeIt.
Fantod
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/3/14
#11Buried Child previews
Posted: 2/18/16 at 4:46pm
Yes it is. I started a thread on it a while ago that didn't gain much traction.
There was also an AP review of the show that was almost impossible to decipher, and I decided to stop including Matthew Murray's reviews because he is so ridiculously long-winded and seems to say absolutely nothing interesting.
Updated On: 2/18/16 at 04:46 PM
jared123
Swing Joined: 3/2/16
#13Buried Child previews
Posted: 3/8/16 at 5:16pm
As a big fan of the play, can anyone tell me *which* version is being performed?
