Filled with wry, dark humor, unparalleled imagination, unforgettable characters, and exquisitely crafted storytelling, Sam Shepard’s plays have earned him enormous acclaim over the past five decades. In these fifteen one-acts, we see him at his best, displaying his trademark ability to portray human relationships, love, and lust with rare authenticity. These fifteen furiously energetic plays confirm Shepard's status as our most audacious living playwright, unafraid to set genres and archetypes spinning with results that are utterly mesmerizing. Included in this volume:   Ages of the Moon Evanescence; Shakespeare in the Alley Short Life of Trouble The Unseen Hand The Rock Garden Chicago Icarus’s Mother 4H Club Fourteen Hundred Thousand Red Cross Cowboys #2 Forensic & The Navigators The Holy Ghostly Back Bog Beast Bait Killer’s HeadIntroduction by Conor McPherson
AGES OF THE MOON EVANESCENCE, OR SHAKESPEARE IN THE ALLEY SHORT LIFE OF TROUBLE THE UNSEEN HAND ROCK GARDEN CHICAGO ICARUS’S MOTHER 4- H CLUB FOURTEEN HUNDRED THOUSAND RED CROSS COWBOYS #2 FORENSIC & THE NAVIGATORS HOLY GHOSTLY BACK BOG BEAST BAIT KILLER’S HEAD“The greatest American playwright of his generation…the most inventive in language and revolutionary in craft…the writer whose work most accurately maps the interior and exterior landscapes of his society.” —New York Magazine
“Stunning in their originality, defiant and inscrutable.” —Esquire
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