Plays by Author - Sam Shepard

A Lie of the Mind

Sam Shepard

Dramatists Play Service

4 Male 4 Female

This play involves two desperate families connected by the marriage of the son of one (Jake) to the daughter of the other (Beth)As the play begins Beth, brain-damaged from a savage beating that Jake has give...

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States of Shock

Sam Shepard

Dramatists Play Service

3 Male 2 Female

A wild and scathing anti-war play whose characters embody the conflicts and violent contradictions of America today. Set in a nondescript family restaurant, with bad service and raging customers, the stage...

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Fool For Love

Sam Shepard

Dramatists Play Service

3 Male 1 Female

The scene is a stark motel room at the edge of the Mojave Desert. May, a disheveled young woman, sits dejectedly on a rumpled bed while Eddie, a rough-spoken rodeo performer, crouches in a corner fiddling wi...

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Seduced

Sam Shepard

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 2 Female

Henry Hackamore, reputed to be the richest man in the world, is now a bearded, aged recluse, who lives on the top floor of a Caribbean luxury hotel, attended by his bodyguard-nurse, Raul Paranoid, despe...

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A Particle of Dread (Oedipus Variations)

Sam Shepard

Dramatists Play Service

6 Male 2 Female

Celebrated playwright Sam Shepard re-imagines this Ancient Greek tale as a modern thriller As a young man, Oedipus is told by a seer that he will grow up to kill his own father and marry his mother To avoi...

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La Turista

Sam Shepard

Used Copy

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Simpatico

Sam Shepard

Dramatists Play Service

3 Male 3 Female

"It is like a cross between a modern film noire, Ibsenesque thriller and revenge drama" ~ London Evening Standard "Sam Shepard goes to the races and wins...SIMPATICO...is Mr. Shepard writing at his distinct...

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The Late Henry Moss

Sam Shepard

Dramatists Play Service

7 Male 1 Female

Two antagonistic brothers, Ray and Earl, are brought together after their father, Henry Moss, is found dead in his seedy New Mexico home Henry was a harassing, arrogant drunk, and his sons have inherite...

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The Unseen Hand and Other Plays

Sam Shepard

Vintage Books

If you visit Sam Shepard country expect to find bayous, deserts, and junkyards where dreams rust alongside abandoned '51 Chevys. Prepare to meet broken gunmen and refugees from distant galaxies, slavering ...

$14.99

Fool for Love and Other Plays

Sam Shepard

Dial Press

Here are eight of Pulitzer-prizewinning Sam Shepard's most stunning plays portraying what The New Yorker dubbed "Shepard Country" - a landscape of the imagination, a unique theatrical experience that capture...

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Sam Shepard - Plays 1 - The Unseen Hand & Red Cross & Killer's Head & The Rock Garden & More

Sam Shepard

Methuen

" ...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 hi...

$28.99

Fool for Love & The Sad Lament of Pecos Bill on the Eve of Killing his Wife

Sam Shepard

Faber & Faber

"Set in a desolate motel room on the edge of the Mojave desert, the play has something of the timeless universality of a Greek tragedy . . . Like ancient classical drama, too, the action is at once brief and...

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The God of Hell

Sam Shepard

Vintage Books

Pulitzer Prize winner Sam Shepard's latest play is an uproarious, brilliantly provocative farce that brings the gifts of a quintessentially American playwright to bear on the current American dilemma Fran...

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True West

Sam Shepard

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 1 Female

This American classic explores alternatives that might spring from the demented terrain of the California landscape. Sons of a desert dwelling alcoholic and a suburban wanderer clash over a film script Aust...

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Kicking a Dead Horse

Sam Shepard

Dramatists Play Service

1 Male 1 Female

The play begins with a man alone in a desert landscape digging a grave Every once in a while, he gives the corpse an audible kick for having let him down Struther made his fortune buying paintings for $20...

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The God of Hell

Sam Shepard

Dramatists Play Service

3 Male 1 Female

An uproarious, brilliantly provocative farce that brings the gifts of a quintessentially American playwright to bear on the current American dilemma Frank and Emma are a quiet, respectable couple who raise...

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