cover art by Steve Mellor
"Robert Auletta's script is
a family drama with a difference...it has a frayed-edge poetry
and wild-animal energy that turn its story, about a veterinary
student and his feral foster brother, into an event that's half
ritual and half nervous breakdown...."
Michael Feingold, The
Village Voice
"The first production of
Robert Auletta's WALK THE DOG WILLIE
was in 1976 at the Yale Repertory Theater. Sam Shepard's BURIED
CHILD was written in 1978 or `79. I'm not suggesting that because
of the evident similarity of the two plays Shepard must have
borrowed from Auletta or been influenced by him.... No, something
more interesting is at work here: a cultural confluence, an
affinity of consciousness, a resemblance of attitudes, most
specifically a shared sense of the heartland American family as
rooted in strains of madness and violence, simultaneously
sustained and corrupted by myths and bound by a love that more
than touches on despair...."
from Richard Gilman's
introduction
4 M, 3 F
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