One of its characters brutally shaves his sleeping father in its first scene, and later aggressively sticks his fingers into the mouth of his nephew's girlfriend.
This play ends with a woman observing new crops and guessing "Maybe that's it. Maybe it's the sun." One of its characters brutally shaves his sleeping father in its first scene, and later aggressively sticks his fingers into the mouth of his nephew's girlfriend. The matriarch of this play carries on an affair with Father Dewis, and continually fantasizes about her grandson Ansel. In its second scene, Vince and Shelley arrive at its central locale, a decaying Midwestern corn farm, and are not recognized by Dodge, who spends this play sitting in a front of a television and drinking. In its final scene, Tilden digs up the title character, a result of his incestuous relationship with his mother Halie. Written in the same year as its author's other family tragedy Curse of the Starving Class, for 10 points, name this play by Sam Shepard about a dead infant.
This play ends with a woman observing new crops and guessing "Maybe that's it.
Buried Child