12 edition of Sam Shepard and the American theatre found in the catalog.
Published
1997
by Greenwood Press in Westport, Conn
.
Written in English
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-179] and index.
| Statement | Leslie A. Wade. |
| Series | Contributions in drama and theatre studies,, no. 76., Lives of the theatre, Contributions in drama and theatre studies ;, no. 76., Contributions in drama and theatre studies. |
| Classifications | |
|---|---|
| LC Classifications | PS3569.H394 Z97 1997 |
| The Physical Object | |
| Pagination | xii, 188 p. ; |
| Number of Pages | 188 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL1007617M |
| ISBN 10 | 0313289441, 0275945847 |
| LC Control Number | 96047537 |
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show more/5(8). Sam Shepard's outlandish, nightmarish, yet lyrical plays—The Tooth of Crime, Buried Child, True West, Fool for Love, A Lie of the Mind, and dozens of others—have garnered him a Pulitzer Prize and a lasting reputation as one of America's greatest living playwrights.
His charismatic performances in movies like Days of Heaven, The Right Stuff, Country, and Thunderheart—as well as his Reviews: 1. Sam Shepard, –, one of the major American playwrights and actors of his era, b.
Fort Sheridan, Ill., as Samuel Shepard Rogers 3d. A product of the s counterculture and an important figure in that era's Off-Broadway movement, Shepard combined wild humor, grotesque satire, myth, and a sparse, haunting language evocative of Western movies to create a subversive vision of America.
Sam Shepard ‘He was the kindest man, truthful, witty and generous’ Published: 6 Aug 'It was like meeting a cowboy': Ed Harris, Kathy Burke and others remember Sam Shepard. Rhythms and Truths: An Interview with Sam Shepard: Source: American Theatre magazine - April As you are writing a play, do you have a certain idea of what the play’s ending will be.
I think for me, every play has its own force, its own momentum, its own. Sam Shepard (November 5, –J ) was an American actor, playwright, and director. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in and was nominated for an Oscar in He’s best known for his work in the theater, as a playwright, actor, and director.
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Shepard started writing plays in the 60s. “Back then, there was a dearth of American theatre,” he told the Observer in “There was nothing going on. American art was starving.”. Sam Shepard's first New York plays, Cowboys and The Rock Garden, were produced by Theatre Genesis in For several seasons, he worked with Off-Off-Broadway theatre groups including La MaMa and Caffe Cino.
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The playwright and actor Sam Shepard, who has died, leaves a legacy of astonishing plays about the America and its conflicted people, including the Pulitzer-winning ‘Buried Child.’. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Cambridge Studies in American Theatre and Drama Ser.: The Theatre of Sam Shepard: States of Crisis by Stephen J.
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Then having seen Buried Child, i knew I had to read his work. His language is spare, tough and elagaic, like Cormac mcCarthy's novels of the southwest. The book builds upon previous publications such as Stephen J. Bottoms’s The Theatre of Sam Shepard: States of Crisis () and Matthew Roudané’s The Cambridge Companion to Sam Shepard ().
Roudané’s collection does offer two essays that address Shepard’s Late Style, but the essays do not provide the comprehensive insight of.Concentrating on his playwriting, this book charts Shepard's various developments and shifts of direction, and the changing contexts in which his work appeared.
Engaging, informative, and insightful, The Theatre of Sam Shepard is the definitive source on the works of this innovative and original writer.
