PAUL DONOVAN applauds an intriguing multi-layered depiction, dominated by a stunning impersonation of Marilyn herself
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Something of a gothic horror show
YVONNE LYSANDROU isn’t wholly impressed with the American Dream turned nightmare depicted in Buried Child
LEO BOIX applauds an audacious, self-questioning film about grief, friendship and film-making
MARY CONWAY admires a brave and topical study of Armageddon that is, unfortunately, unable to come to a conclusion
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The Bard hands out medals for his Edinburgh campaign and urges us to support The Men They Couldn’t Hang
Buried Child at Trafalgar Studios, London SW1
3/5
EMBEDDED in ideological fictions of the rural homestead and the nuclear family, Sam Shepard’s Buried Child is a searing indictment of the mythologising tenets of the American dream.
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