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Buried Child

Sam Shepard

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Character
Gender
Male
Playing Age
Elderly
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
Act 3
Time & Place
Old Farm House, Illinois, sometime after the Vietnam War
Length
Long
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Thirteen Plus (PG-13)

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Start: See, we were a well-established family once. Well-established. All the boys were grown. The farm was producing enough milk to fill Lake Michigan twice over.
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End: It made everything we’d accomplished look like it was nothin’. Everything was canceled out by this one mistake. This one weakness.

For full extended monologue, please refer to the script edition cited here: Shepard, Sam. Buried Child Revised Edition, Dramatists Play Service Inc. Acting Edition, pp. 66-67, 1996.

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