Plays: "A Lie of the Mind", "States of Shock", "Simpatico" Vol 2 (Methuen Contemporary Dramatists): 3: v.2

Sam Shepard is '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) "A poet of the theatre, shaping a new language out of broken words: an emotional seismograph registering the tremors which shake the substratum of human life" (The Times)