'The Mound Builders' Takes Too Long to Catch Fire
Lanford Wilson’s 1975 play “The Mound Builders” is, according to Wilson’s published preface, constructed to resemble the process at an archaeological dig, where scientists painstakingly sift through dirt to find artifacts. This makes it extremely important for the playwright’s subtle slices of exposition to be delivered with maximum clarity. That’s not always happening in Act 1 of …