Sam Shepard

Fool for Love and Other Plays

Angel City, Geography of a Horse Dreamer, Action, Cowboy Mouth, Melodrama Play, Seduced, Suicide in B Flat

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Produktbeschreibung

Here are eight of Pulitzer-prizewinning Sam Shepard's most stunning plays. This brilliant American dramatist creates what The New Yorker dubbed "Shepard Country"--a landscape of the imagination, a unique theatrical experience that captures our culture and consciouness, our fears and fantasies.

FOOL FOR LOVE ANGEL CITY GEOGRAPHY OF A HORSE DREAMER ACTION COWBOY MOUTH MELODRAMA PLAY SEDUCED SUICIDE IN Bb

With an Introduction by Ross Wetzsteon

Sam Shepard is phenomenal...the best practicing American playwright. The New Republic

Sam Shepard is the most exciting presence in the movie world and one of the most gifted writers ever to work on the American stage. Marsha Norman

The most ruthlessly experimental and uncompromising of today's young writers. John Lahr

Sam Shepard fills the role of professional playwright as a good ballet dancer or acrobat fulfills his role in performance. That is, he always delivers, he executes feats of dexterity and technical difficulty that an untrained person could not, and makes them seem easy. Michael Feingold, The Village Voice

"One of the most original, prolific, and gifted dramatists at work today. The New Yorker

Increasingly recognized as one of the more significant dramatists in the English-speaking world. Charles R. Bachman, Modern Drama

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Random House / The Dial Press
• 1984.
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 1984
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 133mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 253g
• ISBN-13: 9780553345902
• ISBN-10: 0553345907
• Artikelnr.: 22204656

Autorenporträt

Sam Shepard is the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of more than forty-five plays. He was a finalist for the W. H. Smith Literary Award for his story collection Great Dream of Heaven, and he has also written the story collection Cruising Paradise, two collections of prose pieces, Motel Chronicles and Hawk Moon, and Rolling Thunder Logbook, a diary of Bob Dylan's 1975 Rolling Thunder Review tour. As an actor he has appeared in more than thirty films, and he received an Oscar nomination in 1984 for his performance in The Right Stuff. His screenplay for Paris, Texas won the Grand Jury Prize at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival, and he wrote and directed the film Far North in 1988. Shepard's plays, eleven of which have won Obie Awards, include Buried Child, The Late Henry Moss, Simpatico, Curse of the Starving Class, True West, Fool for Love, and A Lie of the Mind, which won a New York Drama Desk Award. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Shepard received the Gold Medal for Drama from the Academy in 1992, and in 1994 he was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame.

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"Sam Shepard is phenomenal...the best practicing American playwright." The New Republic"
Sam Shepard is the most exciting presence in the movie world and one of the most gifted writers ever to work on the American stage." Marsha Norman "The most ruthlessly experimental and uncompromising of today's young writers." John Lahr
"Sam Shepard fills the role of professional playwright as a good ballet dancer or acrobat fulfills his role in performance. That is, he always delivers, he executes feats of dexterity and technical difficulty that an untrained person could not, and makes them seem easy." -Michael Feingold, The Village Voice
"One of the most original, prolific, and gifted dramatists at work today." The New Yorker"Increasingly recognized as one of the more significant dramatists in the English-speaking world." Charles R. Bachman, Modern Drama