Posts Tagged ‘Sam Shepard’
Everybody Flock to Cygnet’s Shepards
The American Dream is in reality the American Nightmare, and Sam Shepard is here to prove it. Cygnet Theatre’s very good Shep-Rep fare, comprising “True West” and “Fool for Love,” is Shepard come alive, with two emotionally raw scripts and a scathing indictment of a country that’s clearly lost its way.
Read MoreUCSD’s tragic, intense ‘A Lie of the Mind’ revisits ‘The Twilight Zone’
Playwright Sam Shepard apparently thinks the individualism and romance that characterized the national soul is a thing of the past. His lamentable characters have reams of stories that explain this sorry state–and with UCSD’s fine ‘A Lie of the Mind,’ they’re in rare form.
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