Buried Child: November 16 – 20 at Avila University

Dodge and Halie are barely hanging on to their farmland and their sanity while looking after their two wayward grown sons Tilden and Bradley. When grandson Vince arrives with his girlfriend, no one seems to recognize him, and confusion abounds. As Vince tries to make sense of the chaos, the rest of the family dances around a deep, dark secret. Buried Child is a poetic play by Sam Shepard depicting the fragmentation of the American nuclear family in a context of disappointment and disillusionment with American mythology and the American dream, the 1970s rural economic slowdown, and the breakdown of traditional family structures. Visit avila.edu/theatre or call 816.501.3699 for tickets.