Filled with wry, dark humor, unparalleled imagination, unforgettable characters, and exquisitely crafted storytelling, Sam Shepard’s plays have earned him enormous acclaim over the past five decades. In these fifteen one-acts, we see him at his best, displaying his trademark ability to portray human relationships, love, and lust with rare authenticity. These fifteen furiously energetic plays confirm Shepard's status as our most audacious living playwright, unafraid to set genres and archetypes spinning with results that are utterly mesmerizing. Included in this volume:

Ages of the Moon

Evanescence; Shakespeare in the Alley

Short Life of Trouble

The Unseen Hand

The Rock Garden

Chicago

Icarus’s Mother

4H Club

Fourteen Hundred Thousand

Red Cross

Cowboys #2

Forensic & The Navigators

The Holy Ghostly

Back Bog Beast Bait

Killer’s Head