Craig Schwartz
Terry Morgan - Stage Raw
Watching A Noise Within’s new production of Sam Shepard’s Buried Child, I was struck by how closely the first act resembles Pinter’s The Homecoming. A man who’s been away from his family for some time returns, accompanied by a woman whom he brings into a group of strange, violent men.
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Now running through November 16
Carlos R. Hernandez
Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw
Long before it disappeared, the Old West cast a spell on a certain kind of person — men (although a few were women) who savored the possibility of wide-open country and a better, freer life unshackled from the demands and hypocrisies of social convention.
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Now running through August 31
Les Spindle – Frontiers L.A.
The works of veteran playwright-actor Sam Shepard (True West, The Curse of the Starving Class, A Lie of the Mind) are largely thought of as brooding portraits of severe family dysfunction in America’s heartland. His characters often face an inescapable legacy of decline and despair. Their psychological baggage leads them toward co-dependent relationships and physical and emotional violence.
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Deborah Klugman – LA Weekly
Sam Shepard’s sexy play about two obsessed and volatile lovers can be intense and mesmerizing when it’s done right, and a terrible screech-fest when done wrong. This production trends uncomfortably toward the latter.
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Now running through September 29.