Source: New York Magazine
Article: "How the West Was Lost" an interview with Sam Shepard
After reading Shepard's Buried Child. I have to agree with the masses that he's one of the best artists we have today: actor and writer. I came across this article today (RSS source) and was particularly interested (but certainly not surprised) with the comparisons to Beckett:
"It turns out there’s a real craft to building a dead horse you can believably kick around onstage. Sam Shepard, who recently had to bury his own horse, made it clear what he was looking for in the stage directions for his new one-man, one-horse play, Kicking a Dead Horse, which begins previews at the Public June 25 and stars Stephen Rea. “The dead horse should be as realistic as possible,” he writes, “with no attempt to stylize or cartoon it in any way. In fact, it should actually be a dead horse.” (full article)
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StageKid
Article: "How the West Was Lost" an interview with Sam Shepard
After reading Shepard's Buried Child. I have to agree with the masses that he's one of the best artists we have today: actor and writer. I came across this article today (RSS source) and was particularly interested (but certainly not surprised) with the comparisons to Beckett:
"It turns out there’s a real craft to building a dead horse you can believably kick around onstage. Sam Shepard, who recently had to bury his own horse, made it clear what he was looking for in the stage directions for his new one-man, one-horse play, Kicking a Dead Horse, which begins previews at the Public June 25 and stars Stephen Rea. “The dead horse should be as realistic as possible,” he writes, “with no attempt to stylize or cartoon it in any way. In fact, it should actually be a dead horse.” (full article)
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A frothy Guinness to you for stopping by and another for coming back,
StageKid
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