The Unseen Hand and Other Plays
by Sam Shepard
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(Applause Books). The complete scripts to six Sam Shepard plays: The Unseen Hand * Forensic and the Navigators * The Holy Ghostly * Back Bog Beast Bait * Shaved Splits * 4-H Club.Tags
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Early plays from a master American playwright; these date from the period of 1964 to 1971. They are mainly absurdist, combining the old west, the new west, and outer space, and even bringing in characters as diverse as Mae West and Paul Bunyan. While some of them lack the polish of his later plays, they are still very interesting and well worth the time spent on reading them. Most of these are shorter; only two of the plays in this collection are full length. It would be an interesting evening of theatre to see several of these early works performed together.
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Sam Shepard was born Samuel Shepard Rogers III on an army base in Illinois on November 5, 1943. He briefly studied agriculture at Mount San Antonio College, but dropped out to move to New York in 1962. He wrote more than 55 plays during his lifetime. His first play was produced off-off-Broadway when he was 19 years old and he won the first of his show more 8 Obie Awards when he was 23 years old. His plays included Chicago, The Tooth of Crime, True West, Fool for Love, A Lie of the Mind, The Late Henry Moss, Heartless, and A Particle of Dread. He received the Pulitzer Prize for drama for Buried Child in 1978. He was an actor for both film and television. His films included Days of Heaven, The Right Stuff, and Baby Boom. He also appeared in the Netflix series Bloodline. He wrote or co-wrote several screenplays including Far North and Renaldo and Clara with Bob Dylan. He also wrote songs with John Cale and Bob Dylan including Brownsville Girl. He wrote several books including Cruising Paradise and Motel Chronicles. He died from complications of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis on July 27, 2017 at the age of 73. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- The Unseen Hand and Other Plays
- Original title
- The Unseen Hand and Other Plays
- Original publication date
- 1972
- Original language
- English
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