A Lie of the Mind

A Lie of the Mind

A Lie of the Mind

A Lie of the Mind

Overview

Winner of the New York Drama Critics Award as the best play of the year. A Lie of the Mind is described by its author as a "love ballad...a little legend about love". Frank Rich of the New York Times described it as "a variously rending and hilarious reverie about parents and sons and husbands and wives, all blending into mythic wildernes..." The play was revived by the Donmar Warehouse in 2001.Winner of the New York Drama Critics Award as the best play of the year. A Lie of the Mind is described by its author as a "love ballad...a little legend about love". Frank Rich of the New York Times described it as "a variously rending and hilarious reverie about parents and sons and husbands and wives, all blending into mythic wildernes..." The play was revived by the Donmar Warehouse in 2001.

Authors

Sam Shepard

Sam Shepard’s first New York plays, Cowboys and The Rock Garden, were produced by Theatre Genesis in 1964. For several seasons, he worked with Off-Off-Broadway theatre groups including La MaMa and Caffe Cino. Eleven of his plays won Obie Awards, including Chicago, The Tooth o ...

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