Word: sheparded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...THEATER has such tremendous potential," said play wright Sam Shepard in a meeting with students at the Loeb last February "But actors have to be courageous. If they don't have any courage courage, they're not worth going the distance with...
...Shepard would have been disappointed if he had staved around Harvard long enough to see the American Repertory Theatre's staging of his play Angel City. It's a classic example of wasted potential an accomplished director and cast took on a superb modern play then backed down when the going got tough The play criticizes stale, warmed-over fare posing as art, and that is exactly what the A. R. T. has dished up. Their production, while competent, lacks the vitality and even the horror central to Shepard's vision, and it lacks anything remotely like courage Shepard...
...Shepard and Chaikin chose to work on the project here at Harvard because "they have people and resources they can up into more or less spontaneously," according to Orchard. "They wanted the freedom to experiment with different ideas," he added...
This final script will be far more complex than other Shepard and Chaik in plays, such...
...hoping that Shepard will bring his work back to ZHarvard when the script is ready to be performed...