Word: sheparded
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True West. Sam Shepard's best play since Tooth of Crime (see above...
...phrenology were in vogue, Sam Shepard would be the most prized anatomical medicine man among U.S. playwrights. He knows how to feel every bump on or under the American skull. He views the U.S. mind as a nest of conflicted vision -the lost but lingering vernal dream of hope and purity vying with the corruptive greed of technological gimcrackery...
...Shepard is most rewarding when he transforms his special war into myth. In his latest play, True West, he reworks the ancient tale of Cain and Abel. In the course of the drama, two brothers exchange identities, summoning up Baudelaire's line, "Mon semblable-mon frère!" or put somewhat differently: Am I my brother's murderer...
...Shepard has repudiated this production at off-Broadway's Public Theater and launched a steamy vendetta against Producer Joseph Papp. Certain errors of perception and direction are quite evident, but enough of the true Shepard is here to do him honor. Papp has certainly retained Shepard's singular gift for lunging simultaneously at the jugular and the funny bone. -By T.E. Kalem
...tale twister, the verbal bully who mesmerizes those onstage and in the audience with his endless conjury of felicitous syllables. He is the theater's grand gabby old man, the shaman, the incantator, who goes back to Aeschylus and forward to O'Neill and Osborne, Stoppard and Shepard. Put a spotlight on him, and the eloquence swells, the spell continues. He simply will not shut...