Length: about 1 hour, 25 minutes. There is no interval
Setting: a motel room on the edge of the Mojave Desert
The play was first staged in San Francisco in February 1983 and is
currently running in New York.
The production transferred to the Lyric
Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, where it opened on 4 February 1985.
Sam Shepard
plays:
- 1964:
- Up to Thursday; Dog; Rocking Chair; Cowboys; The Rock Garden.
- 1965:
- 4-H Club; Icarus's Mother; Chicago.
- 1966:
- Red Cross; Fourteen Hundred Thousand.
- 1967:
- la Turista; Melodrama Play; Forensic and the Navigators; Cowboys 2.
- 1969:
- The Holy Ghostly; The Unseen Hand; Operation Sidewinder.
- 1970:
- Shaved Splits.
- 1971:
- Mad Dog Blues; Cowboy Mouth; Back Bog Beast Bait.
- 1972:
- Tooth of Crime.
- 1973:
- Blue Bitch.
- 1974:
- Geography of a Horse Dreamer.
- 1975:
- Action; Killer's Head.
- 1976:
- Suicide in Bb.
- 1977:
- Angel City; Curse of the Starving Class.
- 1978:
- Seduced; Buried Child.
- 1979:
- Tongues; Savage/love.
- 1980:
- True West.
- 1983:
- Fool for love.
screenplays:
- Zabriskie Point.
- Paris, Texas.
prose:
- Rolling Thunder Log Book.
- Hawk Moon.
- Motel Chronicles.