Family Plot by Sarah Stegall copyright 1996 by Sarah Stegall Written by Glen Morgan and James Wong Directed by Kim Manners In his Pulitzer Prize-winning play “Buried Child”, actor and playwright Sam Shepard uses the image of a child’s corpse unearthed in a family’s backyard to speak to us of buried hopes and fears, and the dark secrets that can hold a family together. Just as silence can bind family members in a net of conspiracy and oppression, so are the inarticulate and grotesque Peacock brothers of “Home” entangled in a hopeless web of silence, ignorance, and depravity. Whether this…
The X-Files: “Tempus Fugit and Max”
Saint Max by Sarah Stegall copyright © 1997 by Sarah Stegall “When every day’s just another day when you’re gonna get kidnapped by little gray dudes from outer space, what’s a few CIA spooks?” — Max Fenig Written by Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz Directed by Kim Manners He was among us and we knew him not. When Max Fenig (Scott Bellis) first appeared in all his oddly endearing glory in “Fallen Angel”, I took an instant liking to him. An X-Files groupie who followed the investigations not only of Fox Mulder but of “the enigmatic Dr. Scully”, he was…