Shepard Plays: v.1: 'The Unseen Hand', 'Chicago', 'Icarus's Mother', 'Red Cross', 'Cowboys', 'Operation Sidewinder', 'Killer's Head'

Shepard Plays: v.1: 'The Unseen Hand', 'Chicago', 'Icarus's Mother', 'Red Cross', 'Cowboys', 'Operation Sidewinder', 'Killer's Head'

Shepard Plays: v.1: 'The Unseen Hand', 'Chicago', 'Icarus's Mother', 'Red Cross', 'Cowboys', 'Operation Sidewinder', 'Killer's Head'

Sam Shepard

Shepard Plays: v.1: 'The Unseen Hand', 'Chicago', 'Icarus's Mother', 'Red Cross', 'Cowboys', 'Operation Sidewinder', 'Killer's Head'

Shepard Plays: v.1: 'The Unseen Hand', 'Chicago', 'Icarus's Mother', 'Red Cross', 'Cowboys', 'Operation Sidewinder', 'Killer's Head'

Sam Shepard

Overview

Sam Shepard is 'the greatest American playwright of his generation...the most inventive in language and revolutionary in craft...the writer whose work most accurately maps the interior and exterior landscapes of his society' (New York magazine) Volume One of Sam Shepard's plays collects fourteen of his legendary plays from the sixties: The Unseen Hand; The Rock Garden; Chicago; Icarus's Mother; 4-H Club; Fourteen Hundred Thousand;Red Cross; Cowboys#2; Forensic & The Navigators; The Holy Ghostly; Operation Sidewinder;The Mad Dog Blues; Back Boy Beast Bait; Killer's Head."A poet of the theatre, shaping a new language out of broken words: an emotional seismograph registering the tremors which shake the substratum of human life" (The Times)

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Sam Shepard

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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