Buried Child
Dodge sits out the rain on the sofa with the television on and a bottle under the cushions, while Halie talks down the stairs at him about a dead son who was an athlete. Tilden comes in from a backyard nobody has planted in decades with his arms full of corn, and a grandson arrives with his girlfriend to find that not one of them will admit to knowing him. Shepard's Pulitzer play and the centre of the family cycle, where the household keeps a secret it can neither speak nor bury deep enough.
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- companion to ↑ Curse of the Starving Class
- ↓ True West
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Closest analogues
- 55% · 12 shared
- 49% · 10 shared
- 49% · 9 shared
- 46% · 11 shared
- 46% · 11 shared
- 46% · 10 shared