One of the great American tragic plays. Playwright, Lanford Wilson's work holds up to the tragedies of Eugene O'Neill, Arthur Miller, and Tenessee Williams. It reveals some important aspects of society and it is unpretty. As the world now operates,value is placed on those things of a lower order, whilst those of a higher order are devalued. We have been R.W.A. to wipe out aboriginal people, and when they are gone ,to wipe out their culture. In this case a Paleo-Indian culture that preceded arrival of Europeans into the Americas. Theatrical works such as this serve to remind us that the theater is one of the first places to uncover, to warn, and to protest.
Review of The Mound Builders
