Buried Child at Trafalgar Studios

Buried Child at Trafalgar Studios starring Ed Harris

Scott Elliott directs Sam Shepard’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Buried Child at Trafalgar Studios.

Starring Golden Globe winner and five time Oscar nominee Ed Harris (Truman Show, Apollo Thirteen) as family patriarch Dodge and Amy Madigan as his wife Halie, Buried Child transfers to the West End following a critically acclaimed New York run earlier this year.

Set in 1979 rural America as it reels from a recession and political unrest, the similarities between then and now are compelling in the run up to the American Presidential Election. Casting a brutal light on disenfranchised Americans, Buried Child is a dark, macabre and painfully funny family drama that is as relevant now as it was during its first run almost 40 years ago.

‘An American gothic masterwork. It is to the American theatre what Harold Pinter’s The Homecoming is to the British stage, the classic domestic drama’ The New York Times

Buried Child will run from 14 November 2016 until 4 March 2017 at Trafalgar Studios.

STORY

Dodge (Harris) and Halie (Madigan) are barely hanging on to their farmland and their sanity while looking after their two wayward grown sons. When their grandson Vince arrives with his girlfriend, no one seems to recognize him, and confusion abounds. As Vince tries to make sense of the chaos, the rest of the family dances around a deep, dark secret. This wildly poetic and cuttingly funny take on the American family drama gleefully pulls apart the threadbare deluded visions of our families and our homes.

CAST

The cast features Ed Harris, Amy Madigan, Charlotte Hope and Jeremy Irvine.

CREATIVE

Directed by Scott Elliott with scenic design by Derek McLane, costume design by Susan Hilferty, lightin design by Peter Kaczorowski and sound design by Jeremy S. Bloom.

REVIEWS

Ed Harris is brutally compelling – The Guardian
Ed Harris’s grizzled London debut doesn’t disappoint – Daily Telegraph
tmospheric and meticulously performed – The Stage

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Charlotte Hope joins the cast of Buried Child

Final casting has been announced for the highly anticipated West End production of Sam Shepard's Pulitzer prize winning Buried Child. Joining previously announced Ed Harris, Amy Madigan and Jeremy Irvine will be Charlotte Hope, who makes her West End debut, along with Jack Fortune, Barnaby Kay and Gary Shelford. Hope is possibly best known for her role as Myranda in the multi-award-winning TV series Game of Thrones, here other film credits include Les Misérables, Allied, A United Kingdom, The Theory of Everything, Testament Of Youth, The Invisible Woman, and Three Christs of Ypsilanti. Set in the context of the American farming family of the 1970's, Buried Child is a dark, macabre and painfully funny family drama that shines a brutal light on disenfranchised Americans Buried Child originally premiered in San Francisco in 1978, winning the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979, before transferring to Broadway in 1996. Director Scott Elliot's current production premiered off-Broadway at The Pershing Square Signature Center in March 2016, starring Harris and Madigan, where it was nominated for two Lucille Lortel Awards. Buried Child will run from 14 November 2016 until 15 February 2017 at Trafalgar Studios. BOOKING Book tickets to Buried Child

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Jeremy Irvine cast in Buried Child at Trafalgar Studios

War Horse actor Jeremy Irvine has been cast in Scott Elliott's West End production of Buried Child. Irvine is best known for appearing in Steven Spielberg's adaptation of War Horse and will join the previously announced Ed Harris and Amy Madigan who starred in an off-Broadway revival of the play earlier this year. Sam Shepard’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play is about a family disenfranchised with the American Dream, set against a backdrop of an economic slowdown. A dark, macabre and painfully funny family drama, Buried Child is to American's what Harold Pinter's The Homecoming is to the Britsh. It is to the American theatre what Harold Pinter’s The Homecoming is to the British stage, the classic domestic dram - a classic domestic drama. Buried Child runs from 24 November 2016 until 18 February 2017 at Trafalgar Studios. BOOKING Book tickets to Buried Child

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Ed Harris to star in Buried Child

Hollywood actor Ed Harris is to star in the West End transfer of Sam Shepard's play Buried Child. Directed by Scott Elliott, Artistic Director of The New Group, the show transfers from New York where it completed its off-Broadway run in April 2016. Elliott's production of the Pulitzer Prize winning play received wide spread acclaim, in what was the first major New York revival of the play in 20 years. Oscar and Tony nominated Harris reprises his role as the patriarchal father Dodge alongside his real life wife Amy Madigan who plays his shrew of a wife Halie. Harris is best know for his Oscar nominated performances in Apollo 13 (1995), The Truman Show (1998), The Hours (2002) and the films Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) and The Firm (1993). His upcoming film projects include HBO's sci-fi thriller series Westworld, an ensemble role in Warren Beatty's romantic comedy-drama Rules Don't Apply, Dean Devlin's sci-fi film Geostorm, alongside Gerard Butler and Andy García, and Alejandro González Iñárritu's The One Percent with Hilary Swank and Ed Helms. Set in the context of the American farming family of the 1970's, Buried Child is a dark, macabre and painfully funny family drama that shines a brutal light on disenfranchised Americans; it is as relevant now as it was during it’s first run almost 40 years ago., Buried Child will run from 14 November 2016 until 15 February 2017 at Trafalgar Studios. BOOKING Book tickets to Buried Child

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