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The playwright, screenwriter and actor Sam Shepard was born in 1943 in Illinois. He’s known to movie lovers as the star of many films, among them ‘Days of Heaven’, ‘The Right Stuff’ and, more recently, ‘Black Hawk Down’.
However his achievements as a playwright are probably greater. He’s been writing for the stage for 40 years, winning several Obie awards, and he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1979 for ‘Buried Child’.
His other plays include ‘Cowboys’, ‘Mad Dog Blues’, ‘True West’ and, one of his most influential, 1982’s ‘Fool for Love’, a production of which has just opened at The New Theatre in Dublin. It’s directed by Ronan Wilmot, who also stars, along with Patrick Joseph Byrnes, Sean Power and Laoisa Sexton.
Set in a seedy motel in the desert, it features four characters, one of them a ghostly presence, as they try to make sense of some powerful but frustrated emotions.
(at The New Theatre, 43 East Essex Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2. Opens Monday 17th November 2003, 8pm. Previews Thursday 13th, Friday 14th and Saturday 15th November until Saturday 13th December. Booking Tel. (01) 6703361 Tickets Euro 15/10)
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