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Sam Shepard
Awards & Recognition
Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award and the Drama Desk Award
Dramatizes how individuals misperceive the world.
"Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play, and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Off-Broadway Play. A landmark play which, in the words of the New York Times, “…is the unmistakable expression of a major writer nearing the height of his powers.” Filled with enormous vitality, and humor, the play explores the destinies of two families, linked by marriage but set apart by jealousies and distrust, to probe into the human heart and the destructiveness which it can engender. ”A LIE OF THE MIND is a mesmerizing, emotionally raw play that once again pulls the view into Shepard's distinctive world of disturbed reality and hungry hearts.“ —Variety. ”Sam Shepard's A LIE OF THE MIND, his newest and most mature work to date, is a brilliant theatrical rendering, a play of enormous emotional power and intellectual strength.“ —The Hollywood Reporter. ”Sam Shepard is surely the only dramatist alive who could tell a st"
— Time Magazine
CHL: A Lie of the Mind - Behind the Scenes
A Lie Of The Mind is a American play written by Sam Shepard and published by Dramatists Play Service (1998).
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