Heartless
by Sam Shepard

"This is not a play for people who need answers more than questions…we feel the playwright moving into gripping new territory. Just as the professor wants to go somewhere without a name, Shepard, bless him, keeps us searching.” —Newsday (NY). “These characters fit into Shepard’s pantheon of damaged, dysfunctional people linked by blood and desperation, but there is something particularly bleak and detached about their circumstances…What HEARTLESS reinforces is that we’re all lost, in various stages of decay and disrepair. Characteristically, Shepard finds the dark humor in this quandary.” —USA Today. “The heart has always been a vital organ in the plays of Sam Shepard, and never more so than in HEARTLESS, a poetic, enigmatic and often humorous exploration of the human failure to connect with one another that is the playwright’s most inspired and imaginative work in years…HEARTLESS defies any easy classification or even definition of subject matter…Shepard’s poetic sense of the absur"

— The Village Voice