These three plays by Pulitzer Prize winner Sam Shepard are bold, explosive, and ultimately redemptive dramas propelled by family secrets and illuminated by a searching intelligence.
In The Late Henry Moss-which premiered in San Francisco, starring Sean Penn and Nick Nolte-two estranged brothers confront the past as they piece together the drunken fishing expedition that preceded their father's death. In Eyes for Consuela, based on Octavio Paz's classic story "The Blue Bouquet," a vacationing American encounters a knife-toting Mexican bandit on a gruesome quest. And in...

A solitary man digs a hole in the ground, near a dead horse. Amidst the clutter of food and equipment stands Hobart Struther, who has ridden all the way out to the middle of nowhere on a holy mission. But one day into his "Great Sojourn," things are looking bleak. His horse has choked to death, he's miles away from civilization, and there's not a person around to talk to - other than himself. As Hobart examines his rise -- how he built a vast art collection while ensconced in a comfortable Park Avenue lifestyle -- he digs deep into his own history, unearthing truths about his past while still...

This collection of seven plays by the award-winning American playwright, Sam Shepard, includes Buried Child, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize.

Volume one of Shepard's collected plays brings into print for the first time in Britain, 14 of his legendary short and full- length works from the 60s.

The greatest American playwright of his generation (New York Magazine)

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)

Shepard's play, State of Shock, turns an anniversary party into a reopening of the wounds of war, sex and family betrayal. This volume includes his screenplays for the films Far North, which explores the gap between generations and genders, and Silent Tongue, about white settlers in America.

Schwerpunktthema Zentralabitur in NRW 2011 -2013 §Thematischer Schwerpunkt " The American Dream then and now "§Ein gesellschaftskritisches Drama, das mit den Klischee-vorstellungen vom Goldenen Westen und dem Erfolgs-mythos American Dream" aufräumt. Im Mittelpunkt steht der Zwist zweier Brüder, die entwurzelt in einer von materiellen Werten be-stimmten Welt leben.§TRUE WEST-Aufführungen der English Theatre Company in Essen: Karten und Infos zu den Veranstaltungen erhalten Sie bei: English Theatre Company (ETC), Bismarckstr. 21-23, 45128 Essen, Tel.: +49-201-9229 414§

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...

In eighteen stories unlike any in our contemporary literature, Sam Shepard explores the vast and rugged American West with the same parched intensity that has made him the great playwright of hisgeneration (The New York Times). A boy watches a remedy man tame a wild stallion, a contest that mirrors his own struggle with his father. A womandriving her mother's ashes across the country has a strangely transcendent run-in with an injured hawk. Two aging widowers, in Stetsons and bolo ties, together make a daily pilgrimage to the localDenny's, only to be divided by the attentions of their...