Fifteen One-Act Plays
  • Published: 15 September 2012
  • ISBN: 9780345802767
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $34.99

Fifteen One-Act Plays

An expanded edition of the collection The Unseen Hand and Other Plays

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A masterly collection of fifteen one-act plays--including two new works, a previously unpublished short play/dialogue between Sam Shepard and Bob Dylan, and twelve beloved classics--by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author named "the great playwright of his generation" by The New York Times.

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 Moon
Evanescence; Shakespeare in the Alley
Short Life of Trouble
The Unseen Hand
The Rock Garden
Chicago
Icarus’s Mother
4H Club
Fourteen Hundred Thousand
Red Cross
Cowboys #2
Forensic & The Navigators
The Holy Ghostly
Back Bog Beast Bait
Killer’s Head
  • Published: 15 September 2012
  • ISBN: 9780345802767
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $34.99
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About the author

Sam Shepard

Sam Shepard has written forty-five plays, twelve of which have won Obie Awards. In 1979 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Buried Child, and in 1984 he gained an Oscar nomination for his performance in The Right Stuff. His screenplay for Paris, Texas won the Golden Palm Award at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival, and he wrote and directed the film Far North in 1988. Other plays by Sam Shepard include Curse of the Starving Class, True West, Fool for Love and A Lie of the Mind. In 1986 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters and in 1992 he received the Gold Medal for Drama from the Academy. In 2009 Shepard received the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award.

Also by Sam Shepard

Spy Of The First Person
A Particle of Dread
The One Inside
Heartless
Cruising Paradise
Buried Child
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