(P/B) PLAYS 2

Παρουσίαση

Not many critics would dispute the proposition that Sam Shepard is our most interesting and exciting American playwright. Fewer, however, can articulate just where the interest and excitement lie. There is an extraordinarily limited and homogeneous vocabulary of critical writing about Shepard, a thin lexicon of both praise and detraction. Over and over one sees his work described as "powerful"-"brutally" or "grimly" or "oddly" powerful, but muscular beyond question. Again and again one hears him called "surrealist" or "gothic" or, a bit more infrequently, a "mythic realist" (the most colorful appellation I've seen, affixed to Shepard by our most rococo reviewer, is the "bucking bronco" of American theater). To his detractors he is always "obscure," usually "willfully" so, and always "undisciplined." But even some of his enemies acknowledge his "theatrical magic," always with that phrase, and admirers and some enemies alike point to his plays' "richness of texture," always in those words. (...) (from the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

TRUE WEST, BURIED CHILD, CURSE OF THE STARVING CLASS, THE TOOTH OF CRIME, LA TURISTA, TONGUES, SAVAGE/LOVE