Description
Includes "Buried Child", "Curse of the Starving Class", "The Tooth of Crime", "La Turista", "Savage/Love", and "True West".
Brilliant, prolific, uniquely American, Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Sam Shepard is a major voice in contemporary theatre. And here are seven of his very best.
Endorsements
"One of the most original, prolific and gifted dramatists at work today." — The New Yorker
"The greatest American playwright of his generation... the most inventive in language and revolutionary in craft, [he] is the writer whose work most accurately maps the interior and exterior landscapes of his society." — New York Magazine
"If plays were put in time capsules, future generations would get a sharp-toothed profile of life in the U.S. in the past decade and a half from the works of Sam Shepard." — Time
"Sam Shepard is the most exciting presence in the movie world and one of the most gifted writers ever to work on the American stage." — Marsha Norman, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of 'Night, Mother'
"One of our best and most challenging playwrights... his plays are a form of exorcism: magical, sometimes surreal rituals that grapple with the demonic forces in the American landscape." — Newsweek
"His plays are stunning in their originality, defiant and inscrutable." — Esquire
"Sam Shepard is phenomenal... the best practicing American playwright." — The New Republic