The Theatre of Sam Shepard

The Theatre of Sam Shepard
Author: Stephen James Bottoms
Publisher:
Total Pages: 301
Release: 1998
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780521582421

A comprehensive analysis of Sam Shepard's career from the 1960s to the 1990s.

Motel Chronicles

Motel Chronicles
Author: Sam Shepard
Publisher: City Lights Publishers
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2001-01-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0872861430

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.

Simpatico

Simpatico
Author: Sam Shepard
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
Total Pages: 108
Release: 1995
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780822207269

"Final draft (working rehearsal script)" Pages 190-194 are labelled "Re-Write- 12/7/93"

Seduced

Seduced
Author: Sam Shepard
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
Total Pages: 52
Release: 1979
Genre: American poetry
ISBN: 9780822210085

THE STORY: Henry Hackamore, reputed to be the richest man in the world, is now a bearded, aged recluse, who lives on the top floor of a Caribbean luxury hotel, attended by his bodyguard-nurse, Raul. Paranoid, desperately lonely and obsessed by a fe

The God of Hell

The God of Hell
Author: Sam Shepard
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2005
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780822220640

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.

Curse of the Starving Class

Curse of the Starving Class
Author: Sam Shepard
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
Total Pages: 76
Release: 1976
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780822202615

Tells the story of a dysfunctional family living in a farmhouse they are planning to sell in the hopes of moving on to bigger and better things.

A Lie of the Mind

A Lie of the Mind
Author: Sam Shepard
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
Total Pages: 108
Release: 1986
Genre: American drama
ISBN: 9780822206569

Currently a critical and box office sensation, Sam Shepard's newest play is amasterpiece of poetic and theatrical brilliance that looks unerringly at loveand family in the American West. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Fool for Love

Fool for Love
Author: Sam Shepard
Publisher:
Total Pages: 112
Release: 1984
Genre: American drama
ISBN: 9780571133659

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.