Buried Child: What Lies Beneath?
Set in a cramped Illinois farmhouse, the play opens with Dodge who has fallen on tough times due partly to illness and alcohol abuse, and to mourning mysteriously over the loss of a son. It's difficult, however, to determine how recent this loss was, and the circumstances that led to it. In any play, there will be secrets that come out slowly over the course of the show. In Child, though, there's too much of a cryptic sense around the intrigue that the play suffers. It's hard not to feel so completely in the dark throughout the first act that you must have missed out on something.
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