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Sam Shepard

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True West Summary

Sam Shepard's very successful playwrighting career began in the mid-1960s when his often bizarre and anti-realistic plays were produced in experimental off- off-Broadway theatres such as La Mama and Theatre Genesis at St. Mark's Church m-the-Bowery. The launching of Shepard's playwrighting career is generally attributed to a 1967 review by Michael Smith in the Village Voice. Smith's enthusiastic appraisal of the first two of Shepard's early plays—Cowboys and The Rock Garden...

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Sam Shepard Biographies (5)

Sam Shepard

1,412 words, approx. 5 pages

Sam Shepard (Samuel Shepard Rogers VII; born 1943) began his career as a playwright in the lively off-off-Broadway scene of the 1960s and became one of the United States' most prolific and acclaimed d... Read more

Sam Shepard

3,756 words, approx. 13 pages

"Sam Shepard's perennial theme isn't nostalgia for the Old West or depicting the tortured artist in society," wrote Michael Green of Backstage West, "not even dysfunctional families (though they're pa... Read more

Sam Shepard

5,235 words, approx. 18 pages

Sam Shepard is considered by many critics to be the most important playwright in the Off-Broadway theatre movement. His unique blend of styles--using mythical American heroes, rock and roll music, poe... Read more

Sam Shepard

5,393 words, approx. 18 pages

Although Sam Shepard has written more than forty plays and five screenplays, including collaborating on Michelangelo Antonioni's Zabriskie Point (1970) and Wim Wenders's Paris, Texas (1984); has direc... Read more

Sam Shepard

6,600 words, approx. 23 pages

November 5, 1943. Samuel "Steve" Shepard Rogers "...plunged into the world head first and, although covered with blood, my attitude was very friendly...."My name came down through seven generations of... Read more

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True West

389 words, approx. 2 pages

Throughout the entire film/ play "True West"; the sound effects were done extremely well. There was a well talented sound team on the film. They took their time in making the play se... Read more

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