Plays 1
by Sam Shepard

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"'Plays 1' by Sam Shepard offers raw, visceral stories that demand attention, showcasing the power of the solo voice."

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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)

Publication

Publisher Methuen
Year 1996
Binding Print on Demand (Paperback)
Pages 396
Language English
ISBN-13 9780413708304
ISBN-10 0413708306
LCC PS3569.H394

Plays 1 is a American play written by Sam Shepard and published by Methuen (1996).

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