Sam Shepard Dramatists Play Service May and Eddie 2 scenes THE STORY: The scene is a stark motel room at the edge of the Mojave Desert. May, a disheveled young woman, sits dejectedly on a rumpled bed while Eddie, a rough-spoken rodeo performer, crouches in a corner fiddling with his riding gear. When...
Sam Shepard Dramatists Play Service Henry and Amado 2 scenes THE STORY: A disheveled man wakes from a sweat-drenching nightmare, furiously shaking his shirt and pants free of possible small jungle creatures, and hastily dresses to face the utterly dreamlike reality of remote Mexico, a torpid limbo. Henry...
Sam Shepard Dramatists Play Service Shelly and Vince THE STORY: The setting is a squalid farm home occupied by a family filled with suppressed violence and an unease born of deep-seated unhappiness. The characters are a ranting alcoholic grandfather; a sanctimonious grandmother who goes on drinking bouts...
Sam Shepard Samuel French Lee and Austin 2 plays This American classic explores alternatives that might spring from the demented terrain of the California landscape. Sons of a desert-dwelling alcoholic and a suburban wanderer clash over a film script. Austin, the achiever, is working on a script he has sold...
Sam Shepard Samuel French Slim and Shepard This powerful play examines the dangers of ignorance, the power of superstition, and the tendency of the educated to exploit the uneducated. Available in the collection Fifteen One-Act Plays
Sam Shepard Dramatists Play Service Earl and Ray 2 scenes THE STORY: Two antagonistic brothers, Ray and Earl, are brought together after their father, Henry Moss, is found dead in his seedy New Mexico home. Henry was a harassing, arrogant drunk, and his sons have inherited his worst qualities. Ray is determined...
Sam Shepard Dramatists Play Service Frankie and Jake THE STORY: A LIE OF THE MIND involves two desperate families connected by the marriage of the son of one (Jake) to the daughter of the other (Beth). As the play begins Beth, brain-damaged from a savage beating that Jake has given her, is being tended...
Sam Shepard Samuel French Louis and Pablo Stumbling through Mr. Shepard’s familiar mythical, metaphysical universe are two gumshoes trying to solve the mysterious murder of Niles, a famous jazz musician. Who is the culprit? Who, in fact, is the victim for that matter? A very funny, strikingly original...
Sam Shepard Samuel French Cherry and Geez A one-act cartoonish play about a pampered woman named Miss Cherry who sits around eating chocolates, reading porno novels, and insulting her servants until her boudoir is invaded by a revolutionary on the lam named Geez.
Sam Shepard Dramatists Play Service Drake and Peter THE STORY: The setting is a rundown bar in the Bronx, where two of society’s rejects, Danny and Roberta, strike up a halting conversation over their beer. He is a brooding, self-loathing young man who resorts more to violence than reason; she is a divorced,...
