They can’t really hear each other even when they’re right next to each other, everyone stuck in his or her own stunted perspective. You get the sense, though, that it never matters whether his characters are in close physical proximity or far apart. Shepard’s male characters are scarred by an abusive or absent father.)
His men, in particular, are always embarking on sweeping road trips, much like the peripatetic Mr. The American Dream doesn’t figure into their consciousness if they strive for anything, it’s often to run away from or return to lovers and kin. Many of his most enduring and widely produced plays premiered at the Magic Theatre, where he was playwright in residence for a decade beginning in 1975, including for the writing of three of his quintet of family plays: “Buried Child” (1978), which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1979, “True West” (1980) and “Fool for Love” (1983), which starred Ed Harris and Kathy Baker.Ĭut off geographically and psychically from middle-class norms, his characters forge their own mythos. He first started writing off-off-Broadway and off-Broadway, winning Obie Awards for plays like “La Turista,” “Red Cross” and “The Tooth of Crime” in the 1960s and early 1970s. Shepard brought American theater out of the polite parlors of the East Coast and South and into the Wild West. Over a career that lasted more than five decades, Mr.
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