Sam Shepard (Samuel Shepard Rogers VII; born 1943) began his career as a playwright in the lively off-off-Broadway scene of the 1960s and became one of the United States' most prolific and acclaimed dramatists. He was also a film actor, a stage and film...
November 5, 1943. Samuel "Steve" Shepard Rogers "...plunged into the world head first and, although covered with blood, my attitude was very friendly.... "My name came down through seven generations of men with the same name each naming the first son the...
Although Sam Shepard has written more than forty plays and five screenplays, including collaborating on Michelangelo Antonioni's Zabriskie Point (1970) and Wim Wenders's Paris, Texas (1984); has directed two movies based on his scripts, Far North (1988)...
The Characters Dodge, in his seventies Halie, Dodge's wife. Mid-sixties Tilden, their oldest son Bradley, their next oldest son, an amputee Vince, Tilden's son Shelly, Vince's girlfriend Father Dewis, a Protestant minister ACT ONE Scene: day. Old wooden staircase down left...
BURIED CHILD (NATIONAL THEATER: LITTLETON; 865 SEATS; 35 [pounds sterling] ($62) TOP) LONDON A National Theater presentation of a play by Sam Shepard in two acts. Directed by Matthew Warehus. Sets and costumes, Rob Howell; lighting, Natasha Katz; music, Gary Yershon; sound,...
In the following essay, Callens assesses the underlying "mythic-symbolic dimension" of Sam Shepard's drama Buried Child, focusing on the complex and ambivalent water symbolism in the play.
In the following essay, Auerbach, an educator and critic, offers an interpretation of Buried Child, stressing the play's discouraging message of lost American promise, yet also noting a sense of hope at the conclusion of the drama.
In the essay below, Nash finds that Shepard utilizes elements of traditional folklore in Buried Child, creating ";a modern version of the central theme of Western mythology, the death and rebirth of the Corn King. ";
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