Blood and bones yet dressed in poetry: The drama of Sam Shepard
Titel:
Blood and bones yet dressed in poetry: The drama of Sam Shepard
Auteur:
Bigsby, C. W. E.
Verschenen in:
Contemporary theatre review
Paginering:
Jaargang 8 (1998) nr. 3 pagina's 19-30
Jaar:
1998-08
Inhoud:
Welding subject and form, the opening essay recapitulates with great lyricism Shepard's life and work in an attempt to map the excessive emotional terrain of the playwright's characters: fragmented, traumatized transients ruthlessly given over to incomprehensible, elementally violent passions that relentlessly attract and repel, consuming past and future. Composed with the traces of a reclusive, sensitive yet impetuous father who taught his son a love of poetry and music, and a sixties performance aesthetic, setting great store by immediacy and physical expression but gradually deepened with myth, archetype and costly candour, the emerging portrait is a highly paradoxical one: romantic, contemporaneous and timeless, vibrantly personal and American, showing affinity with the poetic, passion-infused drama of Tennessee Williams and Federico Garcia Lorca.
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