'Buried Child' review: Not the deepest Shepard revival
This may say something scary about us. But Sam Shepard's "Buried Child" doesn't feel as upsetting or as comically monstrous as it once did. Long before the words "dysfunctional family" had been stomped into the cliché of every daily talk show, Shepard's 1979 Pulitzer-winning family exorcism had been mucking around in the primal connections of our most gnarled family trees with grand absurdity and horror.