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2 prospectors the letters of Sam Shepard & Johnny Dark
No full text"Pulitzer Prize-winning author of plays such as True West, Fool For Love, and Buried Child, and Academy Award-nominated actor in many films, including The Right Stuff, Sam Shepard is arguably America's finest working dramatist. He has said many times that he will never write a memoir. But he has written intensively about his inner life and creative work to his former father-in-law and housemate, Johnny Dark. This book gathers nearly 40 years of their correspondence, which provides the most honest and complete record of Shepard's professional and personal lives that he is ever likely to publish. The book is illustrated with Dark's candid, revealing photographs of Shepard and their mutual family across many years, as well as facsimiles of numerous letters. It makes a perfect companion to Treva Wurmfeld's recent film, Shepard & Dark"-
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Sam Shepard Archives
Get PDFThe most influential playwright of his generation, Sam Shepard was born in 1943 in Ft. Sheridan, IL. His family traveled extensively before settling in Southern California. While in high school he began acting and writing poetry. In 1962 he left home with a traveling theater group and arrived in New York City the following year, where he began writing short “rock and roll” plays. Shepard’s first plays to be staged were Cowboys and The Rock Garden, at Theater Genesis in October 1964. He has won almost a dozen Obies for off-Broadway productions. La Turista (1967) was his first full-length play. In 1971, he moved to London where he spent three years writing and directing. As playwright in residence at San Francisco’s The Magic Theater, he wrote Angel City, Inacoma, Tongues (in which he and his mentor Joseph Chaikin appeared), and True West, a 2000 Broadway production of which won numerous Tonys. He returned to the Magic Theater in 2000 for the premiere of The Late Henry Moss, which he also directed. He also wrote a libretto for a Daniel Nagrin dance piece in Jacaranda (1979).
Sam Shepard won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979 for Buried Child. He has received grants from the Rockefeller Foundation (1967) and from the Guggenheim Foundation (1968 and 1971). A revision of Buried Child received a Tony Award nomination (1996). Shepard was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letter in 1986. He received the Gold Medal for Drama (1992) from the Academy and was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame (1994).
Shepard joined a rock band, the Holy Modal Rounders in 1968, playing drums and guitar. He took part in Bob Dylan’s “Rolling Thunder Revue,” a nationwide touring group, in 1975, and wrote an account of the experience, Rolling Thunder Logbook (1977). Shepard’s film career began in 1978, when he appeared in Renaldo and Clara and Days of Heaven, directed by Terrence Malick. His screenplay for Paris, Texas, directed by Wim Wenders, won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1984. Also that year he received an Academy Award nomination for The Right Stuff (1983). Shepard also earned a Golden Globe nomination for Dash & Lily (1999). He wrote and directed Far North in 1988. Shepard has appeared in a number of other movies and in 2005 he wrote and performed in Don’t Come Knocking. Shepard’s published collections of short stories include Hawk Moon (1973), Cruising Paradise (1996), and Great Dream of Heaven (2002).UT Librarie
Sam Shepard
No full textExposição em homenagem a Sam Shepard (1943-2017), dramaturgo americano, cantor de rock e rancheiro nos EUA. Além do teatro, atuou brilhantemente no cinema, como ator e roteirista, e na literatura como contista. Escreveu mais de cinquenta peças, onze das quais receberam o prêmio Obie. Para homenagear esse artista, a BU/UFSC reuniu uma amostra dos seis livros de Sam Shepard publicados no Brasil, que são parte do acervo pessoal do servidor técnico-administrativo Giovanni Fiorenzano. A exposição apresenta, também, alguns artigos selecionados sobre o artista, filmes roteirizados e fotos. “Penso que sem escrever, eu me sentiria completamente inútil” (Sam Shepard). A exposição esteve disponível de 22 de agosto a 13 de outubro de 2017, no primeiro piso da Biblioteca Central (área dos pufs). Localização apenas digital
Sam Shepard drámái és hagyomány
No full textA Mesterek árnyékában: Sam Shepard drámái és a hagyomány címet viselő kötet az amerikai színház- és drámatörténet területén végzett több mint másfél évtizedes kutatás eredményeit foglalja össze. E könyv olyan, korábban (többnyire angol nyelven) már önállóan megjelent tanulmányok első magyar kiadása, melyek Sam Shepard (1943–) kortárs amerikai szerző színházi és drámaírói munkásságát igyekeznek megvilágítani, méghozzá a kortársak és irodalmi elődök hatása, a hagyományteremtés és folytonosság kérdéskörei felől. Ezek az írások egyben egy szokatlan modern amerikai drámatörténet körvonalait is megrajzolják, mely Shepard dráma és színházművészetén keresztül tekinti át a 20. század jelentősebb amerikai drámaszövegeinek az utókorra gyakorolt hatását. Az időrendbe állított hatástörténeti és összehasonlító drámakritikai tanulmánysorozat egyfajta vázlatos körkép a 20. század meghatározó és ismertebb amerikai drámaíróiról. Jelen kötet kiadásának időzítése különösen szerencsés, hisz egybeesik a középpontba állított alkotó, Sam Shepard hetvenedik születésnapjával.203×144×132450 Ft29
Simpatico a play in three acts
No full textCarter ought to be managing his thoroughbred business is Kentucky. Instead, he is in a desolate room in Cucamonga, Nowheresville, U.S.A., trying to get back in the good graces of Vinnie, the one man who has the power to destroy him. From the beginning, Sam Shepard's Simpatico launches us into the world of horse racing, where high society meets the low life and the line between winners and losers is as treacherously thin as a razor blade
Spy of the first person
No full textIn searing, beautiful prose, Sam Shepard's extraordinary narrative leaps off the page with its immediacy and power. It tells in a brilliant braid of voices the story of an unnamed narrator who traces, before our rapt eyes, his memories of work, adventure, and travel as he undergoes medical tests and treatments for a condition that is rendering him more and more dependent on the loved ones who are caring for him. The narrator's memories and preoccupations often echo those of our current moment...for here are stories of immigration and community, inclusion and exclusion, suspicion and trust. But at the book's core, and his, is family...his relationships with those he loved, and with the natural world around him. Vivid, haunting, and deeply moving, Spy of the First Person takes us from the sculpted gardens of a renowned clinic in Arizona to the blue waters surrounding Alcatraz, from a New Mexico border town to a condemned building on New York City's Avenue C. It is an unflinching expression of the vulnerabilities that make us human...and an unbound celebration of family and lif
Joseph Chaikin and the Open Theater
No full text"Nightwalk" is a collective theater work, the creation of writers Jean-Claude van Itallie, Sam Shepard, Megan Terry, and Open Theater director Joseph Chaikin, as well as the actors. It is a montage of surreal situations that examine the human condition in worlds both real and fantastic, presenting exaggerations of human pretensions. Human and birdlike creatures weave in and out. The plot is a journey, liberated from conventional thought.
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