Buried Child at Trafalgar Studios

Not impressed by the prices for this but would quite like to see Ed Harris on stage. I'll probably give in and book. Doubt I'll manage to go before early 2017 anyway so will possibly wait a bit and see if this sells well or if there is a chance for offers.

I read a thorough synopsis of this play, it sounds thoroughly unpleasant. There's going to have to be some serious discounting if I'm to give it any further thought.

Hey Marwood,

I would hang tight and download the TODAY TIX app.  They're highly likely to use it on this, as same venue and director as THE SPOILS team, and you'll most likely get great seats on it for £26 or thereabouts.  When I used it for THE SPOILS tickets we got Row H, Premium Seats for that price.  

Anyone seen this yet? Just found out I'm going this evening, 2 Shepherd plays in 2 days after Found 111 last night.

If you want to see Ed Harris but you don't want to see Buried Child (or pay a fortune to see him in the playCurzon), there's a screening of Pollock at Curzon Soho on 18th December,, followed by a Q&A with him (I won't be in the country that weekend or I would have gone myself):

Cracked and booked for tomorrow matinee....£35 ticket from TodayTix row B and used code helpfully provided in General Thread for another £10 off....I was convinced when I realised Ed Harris is the maninblack in Westworld TV series!

I enjoyed this a lot, even as I kept turning to my daughter in each interval with a look of bemused puzzlement! The theatre was about 3/4 full...ridiculous pricing on ATG. £85 a ticket for the terrible 2nd row that has no rake to speak of from the 1st row....and my seat B5, 3rd row side priced at £65 (I paid a far more reasonable £35 - another £10 for TheatreTix code)

Ed Harris is great - great voice, great timing, great command of the stage. Get in early to see him sit on the sofa watching TV for 15mins....

Oh and thanks to the people behind me, who whispered their various theories of what was going to happen loudly near the end....IF YOUR FRIEND CAN HEAR IT SO CAN I! And the man who received multiple text alerts and obviously didn't know how to switch his phone off, so had to leave instead. Not disruptive atall.

The same phone rang 3 times during the first act when I went too, so frustrating during such a tense play. 

I enjoyed it overall but thought it peaked at the second act. I still enjoyed the third act but the pacing was a bit jumbled which created a bit of a slump between Vince's initial return and the actual end. Though the whole cast was good, Ed Harris obviously but particularly Charlotte Hope.

I think xanderl is right on the seating. I was in the front row and thought I would not like to have been in the end of row seats.

Gave into temptation and decided at the last moment to see this yesterday afternoon, £35 through Today Tix, I was sat in B4 (could see the stairs, but shame about the man sat directly in front with the 'interesting' hairstyle that meant I couldn't see anything left of Ed Harris for much of the third act)

I enjoyed the first two acts, which seemed enjoyable but hadn't seemed to have decided whether it was a straight drama or a farce (the start of act 2 seemed like an unaired Scooby Doo episode), but alas, the whole thing fell apart in the third act, which I can only describe as a mess - I cannot believe this play won the Pulitzer prize, I'm guessing this was intended to be a profound deconstruction of the 'American dream' when it was written and as such the New Yorker set who had probably never been west of the Hudson when this was written, never mind going to Illinois but voted for it all the same, this just seemed so clunky, and without any logic, it all seemed laughable by the time events dragged to a close (when Tilden came out at the end with his erm, 'discovery', I had to stifle a loud burst of laughter, the whole thing seemed so clunky - which probably wouldn't have gone down too well with the woman in front who seemed to be sobbing away (hopefully not at what she had paid to see this)) - sorry, it was good to see Ed Harris on the London stage (and to be fair to the rest of the cast, they all acquitted themselves well with the material on offer) but I would have hoped to have seen him in something better than this.

At the end of the day, all I took away from this was my gratitude that I hadn't bought a premium ticket when this was first announced. This was the first Sam Shepard play I'd seen, won't be in a rush to see another.

Agree with everything Snciole says, except I was probably less sympathetic with Madigan's performance. In my head, I think I compared it unfavourably with Deborah Findlay's in The Children - another talkative older woman, but Findlay's performance had so many more levels, whereas Madigan had judged her character, disliked her and that was it.
Lots of questions and a few 'so whats' in this. Also agree that Kay was one of the strengths and Irvine not so much - I think it was a mixture of his character and performance.