Sam Shepard is phenomenal. He is the best practicing American playwright, I think, now that Tennessee Williams is doodling….
Curse of the Starving Class … is another of Shepard's heartbreakers—it contains so much, yet it finally comes to not enough…. [It] deals with California sheep raisers and thus immediately strikes a distinctive Shepard note. He often deals with non-urban people, often in the West; most of our playwrights are urban in setting and feeling….
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