Buried Child-Sam Shepard

BURIED CHILD - Sam Shepard “You don’t wanna die do you?”... “but I just lost my voice.” Buried Child, by Sam Shepard speaks to us about the impact of family secrets. A family in general is bonded by bloodlines. Yet relationships within the unit can be disturbed if a dark secret is held. The death of child is a tragedy all together, but when a member of the unit murders a child, the family …

…that there is life back there is something growing in deed. Even the secret of the buried child is growing and living. Everyone deals with their own personal fears alone instead of coming together as a family. After reading this play I felt the impact of Tilden’s words to his father, when he asked him about dying. It is so true that one slowly dies inside when they hold on to such horrid secrets.