Everything about 'Chicago' suggests we're in the company of young, 1960's radical theater types who want to disorient if not shock themselves and the audience, thus to rediscover the primal effect of theater.

Sam Shepard was born on November 5, 1943, in the Chicago suburb of Fort Sheridan, Illinois. [5] He was named Samuel Shepard Rogers III after his father, Samuel Shepard Rogers Jr. (1917–1984), [6] but was called Steve Rogers. [7] His father was a teacher and farmer who served in the United States Army Air Forces as a bomber pilot during World ...

Chicago is a play of vivid stage imagery, slippery symbols and an unbridled indulgence of imagination. It possesses the barest outline of recognizable reality…. [I] think Mr....

Sam Shepard was the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer of 44 plays whose work reimagined the landscape and people of the American West. He became one of the best-known playwrights of his generation. Shepard also wrote short stories, essays, screenplays, and memoirs.

Jul 31, 2017 · Sam Shepard, who died at age 73 of complications from Lou Gehrig’s disease, was the bard of America’s flat highways, wide-open spaces and wounding, dysfunctional families.

Sam Shepard The Beckettian dilemma of Stu, puppet and demiurge ensconced in his bathtub, moves from his particular problem (his lover is leaving him) to the threat posed to the human spirit by its own increasingly dangerous civilization.

Bachman, Charles R. "Defusion of Menace in the Plays of Sam Shepard". Modern Drama. 1976 Dec 19; (4): 405-416. Bigelow, Ernest Alanson , Jr. A Symposium of Voices: Sam Shepard's ... When the World Was Green (A Chef's Fable); and Chicago. Variety. 1996 Nov 11(2): p.68. Correspondence on Chicago. Back to Chicago. Back to the bibliography.

One-act play. A 20-ish man named Stu sits in a bathtub wearing only a pair of jeans, while his girlfriend Joy makes preparations to leave for Chicago, where she has taken a new job. Friends drop by to wish her farewell, Joy hops into the bathtub for a sweaty session of foreplay and Stu never stirs from his pool of (imaginary) water.

What gives the play its delights is Mr. Shepard's ability to follow fast after the ephemeral half-thought that is usually unspoken…. The ending—in which the hero's private world...

Sam Shepard (born November 5, 1943, Fort Sheridan, near Highland Park, Illinois, U.S.—died July 27, 2017, Midway, Kentucky) was an American playwright and actor whose plays adroitly blend images of the American West, Pop motifs, science fiction, and other elements of popular and youth culture.