The Edge Theater's BURIED CHILD Begins Performances Tomorrow

The Edge Theater presents Sam Shepard's 1979 Pulitzer Prize-winning family drama "Buried Child" October 17- November 16 at 1560 Teller Street in Lakewood. Performances are Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m., Sundays at 6 p.m. No performance on Sunday, November 2 / $15 Industry Night, Monday, November 3 @ 8 p.m. Tickets are $22 - $26 ($15 on Nov. 3) and available online at www.theedgetheater.com or by calling 303-232-0363. Group rates are available and parking is free.

When Vince brings his girlfriend, Shelly, home to meet his family, she is at first charmed by the "normal" looking farm house which she compares to a "Norman Rockwell cover or something"--that's before she actually meets his crazy family--his ranting, alcoholic grandparents (Dodge and Halie) and their two sons: Tilden, a hulking semi-idiot, and Bradley, who has lost one leg to a chain saw. Strangely, no one seems to remember Vince at first, and they treat him as an intruder. Eventually, however, they seem to accept him as a part of their violently dysfunctional family.

Director Rick Bernstein makes his Edge debut with a cast that includes Dan Mundell (Dodge), Emma Messenger (Halie), Robert Kramer (Tilden), Brian Landis Folkins (Bradley), Royce Wood (Vince), Missy Moore (Shelly) and Tim Fishbaugh (Fr. Dweis).

Before he was thirty, Sam Shepard had over thirty plays produced in New York. In his works Shepard has repeatedly examined the moral anomie and spiritual starvation that characterize the world of his drama. Over the past forty years, he has written over 45 plays, eleven of which have won Obie Awards. Sam Shepard was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame in 1994.

Photo Credit: Rachael D. Graham