Sam Shepard

Fifteen One-Act Plays (eBook, ePUB)

An expanded edition of the collection The Unseen Hand and Other Plays

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. August 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780345802774
• Artikelnr.: 38212342

Autorenporträt

Sam Shepard was the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of more than fifty-five plays and three story collections. As an actor, he appeared in more than sixty films, and received an Oscar nomination in 1984 for The Right Stuff. He was a finalist for the W. H. Smith Literary Award for his story collection Great Dream of Heaven. In 2012 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Trinity College, Dublin. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, received the Gold Medal for Drama from the Academy, and was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame. He died in 2017.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction by Conor McPherson
AGES OF THE MOON
EVANESCENCE, OR SHAKESPEARE IN THE ALLEY
SHORT LIFE OF TROUBLE
THE UNSEEN HAND
ROCK GARDEN
CHICAGO
ICARUS’S MOTHER
4- H CLUB
FOURTEEN HUNDRED THOUSAND
RED CROSS
COWBOYS #2
FORENSIC & THE NAVIGATORS
HOLY GHOSTLY
BACK BOG BEAST BAIT
KILLER’S HEAD