Plays & Pantomime
by Shepard, Sam
Genre: Drama
Cast 3 male 2 female
Length Short
Set Exterior
Licence World Ex - US/Canada
ISBN
Over the course of an afternoon, a pleasant, lazy picnic trnasforms into a menacing apocalypse.
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Two men and two women drink coffee and wait for a turkey to finish roasting in the oven. While the women go about ordinary household tasks, the men behave in…...
Cast 2 male 2 female
A gruffly poignant and darkly funny play, Ages of the Moon finds old friends Byron and Ames re-united by mutual desperation. Ames' marriage has broken down and he rings Byron…...
Cast 2 male
An exploration of the destructive nature of the Hollywood entertainment industry. A trio of unknown screenwriters has been brought together by a pair of hungry producers who are anxious to…...
Cast 4 male 2 female
Shepard's Pulitzer Prize winning play is set in a farmhouse somewhere in the American West, inhabited by a raving, alcoholic grandfather, a sanctimonious grandmother who goes on drinking bouts with…...
Cast 5 male 2 female
An Obie Award wining play by Sam Shepard, where a man contemplates the end of civilisation from his bathtub....
Cast 4 male 3 female
The play is about Cavale and Slim, two absolute messes living in sin together. Unable to move, yet at complete unrest, Slim swings from blaming Cavale for the disaster that…...
Cast 2 male 1 female
A farmhouse somewhere in the American West is the setting for Shepard's exploration of a family trying to survive on the raw edge of society. Weston the father is a…...
Cast 7 male 2 female
In a stark motel room on the edge of the Mojave Desert, May, a dishevelled young woman sits dejectedly on a rumpled bed while Eddie, a rough-spoken rodeo performer crouches…...
Cast 3 male 1 female
An uproarious, brilliantly provocative farce that brings the gifts of the quintessentially American playwright to bear on the current American political situation. Frank and Emma are a quiet, respectable couple…...
An early short play from Sam Shepard written in 1969 involving the confrontation of a father with his son....
Cast 4 male 1 female
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