Fifteen One-Act Plays

An expanded edition of the collection The Unseen Hand and Other Plays

SAM SHEPARD was the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of more than fifty-five plays, three story collections, and two works of prose fiction. As an actor, he appeared in more than sixty films, and received an Oscar nomination in 1984 for The Right Stuff. He was a finalist for the W. H. Smith Literary Award for his story collection Great Dream of Heaven. In 2012 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Trinity College, Dublin. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, received the Gold Medal for Drama from the Academy, and was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame. He died in 2017.

Introduction by Conor McPherson

AGES OF THE MOON
EVANESCENCE, OR SHAKESPEARE IN THE ALLEY
SHORT LIFE OF TROUBLE
THE UNSEEN HAND
ROCK GARDEN
CHICAGO
ICARUS’S MOTHER
4- H CLUB
FOURTEEN HUNDRED THOUSAND
RED CROSS
COWBOYS #2
FORENSIC & THE NAVIGATORS
HOLY GHOSTLY
BACK BOG BEAST BAIT
KILLER’S HEAD