{"id":23782,"date":"2017-02-04T06:00:58","date_gmt":"2017-02-04T12:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=23782"},"modified":"2017-02-04T03:56:03","modified_gmt":"2017-02-04T09:56:03","slug":"austin-peay-state-university-department-of-theatre-and-dance-presents-buried-child-on-february-8th-12th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2017\/02\/04\/austin-peay-state-university-department-of-theatre-and-dance-presents-buried-child-on-february-8th-12th\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin Peay State University Department of Theatre and Dance presents \u201cBuried Child\u201d on February 8th-12th"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cBuried Child\u201d to be performed by APSU Department of Theatre and Dance<\/h2>\n

\"AustinClarksville, TN<\/strong> – Sam Shepard\u2019s Pulitzer Prize winning play, \u201cBuried Child\u201d opens Wednesday, February 8th at Austin Peay State University. In this performance, APSU\u2019s Department of Theatre and Dance will explore what it looks like when the American Dream fails.<\/p>\n

The curtain rises at 7:30pm for performances on February 8th-11th, with an additional showing February 12th at 2:00pm. All performances take place in the Trahern Theatre, with admission ranging from $10.00 for general public to $5.00 for students, seniors and military.<\/p>\n

\"APSU<\/a>

APSU Department of Theatre and Dance presents \u201cBuried Child\u201d on February 8th-12th<\/p><\/div>\n

The 1978 play that catapulted the playwright to mainstream national fame, \u201cBuried Child\u201d focuses on a \u201ctraditional\u201d nuclear family trying deal with life on a failing plot of farmland in Illinois. The play examines the growing sense of disillusionment with the American Dream in the early 70\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Aging parents Dodge and Halie are barely holding on to their failing lives, as well as the failed lives of their grown sons. When a wayward grandson and his girlfriend arrive, no one seems to recognize or remember him as the family dances around a dark, buried secret. \u201cBuried Child\u201d puts comedy, drama and surrealism into a small Illinois farmhouse and brings the audience along for the experience.<\/p>\n

\u201cBuried Child\u201d is the Austin Peay directorial debut of Talon Beeson, assistant professor of acting and directing. Beeson comes to Austin Peay from stints in New York, Los Angeles and, most recently, Chicago, where he taught acting at Columbia College Chicago. A professional actor, Beeson has performed across the country, and has been heard as a voice actor on many TV shows, video games and commercials including “Divorce Court,\u201d \u201cGrand Theft Auto V,\u201d “Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare\u201d and as the voice of Kingsford Charcoal.<\/p>\n

\u201cBuried Child\u201d explores the idea of a family deeply wounded by self-inflicted trauma. While the family remains together physically, it is obvious to the viewer that they are socially and emotionally disconnected beyond any hope of repair. It\u2019s in that all-too-relatable setting that Beeson said he found the potential for exploration as a director.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve seen this play done many times and performed as plodding, heavy and very dark,\u201d Beeson said. \u201cMy goal as a director was to explore the potential for dark humor within the chracters\u2019 performances and make things funny right up to the moment where it\u2019s no longer funny at all.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I was casting, I was looking for people who shared my outlook,\u201d Beeson said. \u201cI was looking for a group that had that right look, played well off of each other\u2019s sensibilities and shared that kind of darker feel that we were going for with this production of \u2018Buried Child.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

For more information, contact the APSU box office at 931.221.7379 or email at boxoffice@apsu.edu<\/a>. Tickets can also be purchased at www.apsu.edu\/theatre-dance\/online-ticketing-system<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cBuried Child\u201d to be performed by APSU Department of Theatre and Dance Clarksville, TN – Sam Shepard\u2019s Pulitzer Prize winning play, \u201cBuried Child\u201d opens Wednesday, February 8th at Austin Peay State University. In this performance, APSU\u2019s Department of Theatre and Dance will explore what it looks like when the American Dream fails. The curtain rises […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[23,21145,17587,262,29710,10458,825,8717,12373,29711],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-6bA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23782"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23783,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23782\/revisions\/23783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}