SOURCE: ";Sam Shepard: Theatrical Power and American Dreams,"; in Modern Drama, Vol. XXX, No. 1, March, 1987, pp. 58-71.
In the following essay, Rabillard notes the marked difference between Shepard's abstract early plays and his more realistic later work The critic finds, however, that both styles are explorations of theatricality that exert a powerful hold on audiences and draw attention to the dramatic act.
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