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Apr 8, 2024 · Sam Shepard (born November 5, 1943, Fort Sheridan, near Highland Park, Illinois, U.S.—died July 27, 2017, Midway, Kentucky) was an American playwright and actor whose plays adroitly blend images of the American West, Pop motifs, science fiction, and other elements of popular and youth culture.
Angel City (play) Buried Child. Cowboy Mouth (play) Curse of the Starving Class. Family Trilogy. Fool for Love (play) Geography of a Horse Dreamer. The God of Hell. Icarus's Mother. Kicking a Dead Horse. Killer's Head. L. A Lie of the Mind. Oh! Calcutta! Operation Sidewinder (play) Savage/Love. Simpatico (play) Suicide in B♭. Tongues (play)
Eleven of Sam’s plays won Obie Awards, including Chicago, The Tooth of Crime, and Curse of the Starving Class. Other award-winning plays include Fool for Love , A Lie of the Mind , True West and Buried Child , for which he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1979.
May 11, 2019 · Shepard’s earliest extant play, The Rock Garden, sketches many of the themes that resonate throughout his work. In the first of the play’s three scenes, Shepard defines the estrangement between generations: A Boy and a Girl sit in silence, sipping milk, while a Man, absorbed in his magazine, ignores them.
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Jul 31, 2017 · Sam Shepard, who died last Thursday at age 73, was a polymathic writer who collected acclaim and accolades as a playwright, actor and author. The New York Times has covered Mr. Shepard’s career...
Buried Child is a play written by Sam Shepard that was first presented in 1978. It won the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and launched Shepard to national fame as a playwright.
