Author: Sam Shepard Publisher: Bantam ISBN: 9780553341201 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 372
Book Description
Presents seven dark works by American playwright Sam Shepard, which span 1968-1981 and deal with such themes as family disturbances and the loss of American myths; includes "Buried Child" and "Curse of the Starving Class."
Author: Sam Shepard Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback ISBN: 9780553346114 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 368
Book Description
Brilliant, prolific, uniquely American, Pulitzer prizewinning playwright Sam Separd is a major voice in contemporary theatre. And here are seven of his very best. "One of the most original, prolific and gifted dramatists at work today."—The New Yorker "The greatest American playwright of his generation...the most inventive in language and revolutionary in craft, [he] is the writer whose work most accurately maps the interior and exterior landscapes of his society."—New York Magazine "If plays were put in time capsules, future generations would get a sharp-toothed profile of life in the U.S. in the past decade and a half from the works of Sam Shepard."—Time "Sam Shepard is the most exciting presence in the movie world and one of the most gifted writers ever to work on the American stage."—Marsha Norman, Pulitzer prizewinning author of ‘Night, Mother. "One of our best and most challenging playwrights...his plays are a form of exorcism: magical, sometimes surreal rituals that grapple with the demonic forces in the American landscape."—Newsweek "His plays are stunning in thier originality, defiant and inscrutable."—Esquire "Sam Shepard is phenomenal..the best practicing American playwright."—The New Republic
Author: Sam Shepard Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc ISBN: 9780822220640 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 52
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THE STORY: An uproarious, brilliantly provocative farce that brings the gifts of a quintessentially American playwright to bear on the current American dilemma. Frank and Emma are a quiet, respectable couple who raise cows on their Wisconsin farm.
Author: Sam Shepard Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0345802764 Category : Humor Languages : en Pages : 402
Book Description
Filled with wry, dark humor, unparalleled imagination, unforgettable characters, and exquisitely crafted storytelling, Sam Shepard’s plays have earned him enormous acclaim over the past five decades. In these fifteen one-acts, we see him at his best, displaying his trademark ability to portray human relationships, love, and lust with rare authenticity. These fifteen furiously energetic plays confirm Shepard's status as our most audacious living playwright, unafraid to set genres and archetypes spinning with results that are utterly mesmerizing. Included in this volume: Ages of the Moon Evanescence; Shakespeare in the Alley Short Life of Trouble The Unseen Hand The Rock Garden Chicago Icarus’s Mother 4H Club Fourteen Hundred Thousand Red Cross Cowboys #2 Forensic & The Navigators The Holy Ghostly Back Bog Beast Bait Killer’s Head
Author: Sam Shepard Publisher: City Lights Publishers ISBN: 0872861430 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 146
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Motel Chronicles reveals the fast-moving and sometimes surprising world of the man behind the plays that have made Sam Shepard a live legend in the theater. Shepard chronicles his own life birth in Illinois, childhood memories of Guam, Pasadena and rural Southern California, adventures as ranch hand, waiter, rock musician, dramatist, and film actor. Scenes from this book form the basis of his play Superstitions, and of the film (directed by Wim Wenders) Paris, Texas, winner of the Golden Palm Award at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival.
Author: Sam Shepard Publisher: ISBN: 9780571133659 Category : American drama Languages : en Pages : 112
Book Description
The sad lament of Pecos Bill on the eve of killing his wife: Cast: gender - mixed; number - 1 male, 1 female; size - small; ages - adults.
Author: Sam Shepard
Author: Sam Shepard
Author: Sam Shepard
Author: Sam Shepard
Author: Sam Shepard
Author: Sam Shepard
Author: Sam Shepard
Author: Sam Shepard
Author: Sam Shepard
Author: Sam Shepard