Shepard, Sam (Samuel Shepard Rogers, Jr.)
Shepard, Sam (Samuel Shepard Rogers, Jr.)( 1943– ),Illinois-born playwright, reared and resident in California. His first works were short plays, beginning with Cowboys and The Rock Garden (1964), presented off-Broadway. La Turista (1967) was his first long play. Other productions followed rapidly from Shepard's prolific writing, which, with substantial selectivity, includes The Tooth of Crime (1972), a fantasy about rock-and-roll pop singers that is a commentary on contemporary American social values, and Curse of the Starving Class (1978), depicting a lower-middle-class family symbolic of social chaos in the U.S. Buried Child (1978, Pulitzer Prize) deals with an even more macabre disintegrating family in Illinois. In general the dramas of Shepherd are marked by an improvisational feeling because of their great variety in moving from the surreal to the realistic in treating people and situations...
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