The Late Henry Moss - Almeida Theatre

1984: Paris, Texas wins Palme d’Or atCannes (screenplay written byShepard).1985: A Lie of the Mind, directed byShepard, opens at the PromenadeTheatre and wins New York DramaCritics Circle Award for Best Play.1986: Shepard is elected to theAmerican Academy of Arts andLetters.1988: Directs his screenplay Far North.1991: States of Shock opens atAmerican Place Theatre.1992: Receives the Gold Medal forDrama from the Academy.1994: Shepard directs his playSimpatico at Joseph Papp PublicTheatre and is inducted into theTheatre Hall of Fame.1998: Eyes for Conseula opens at theManhatten Theatre Club.2000: Shepard plays the Ghost in afilm version of Hamlet, directed byMichael Almereyda.The Late Henry Moss premieres at theMagic Theatre, San Francisco directedby Shepard.2001: The New York Premiere of TheLate Henry Moss.2004: The film This So-Called Disaster,about the rehearsal period for TheLate Henry Moss in San Francisco anddirected by Michael Almereyda isreleased.Shepard appears in the New YorkPremiere of Caryl Churchill’s ANumber at New York TheatreWorkshop.The God of Hell premieres at theActors Studio Drama School Theatre.Buried Child is performed at theLyttelton, National Theatre.2005: The European Premiere of TheGod of Hell opens at the Donmar.“to me“Youone of thestrangestand mostterrifying things about beinghuman is the need to come upwith an identity. It has alwaysbewildered me, and I can saythat even now it’s still mostlyunresolved… ‘Who am I?’ Ashackneyed and simplistic asthe question might sound tous of the dot-com e-mailcomputer age, it may stillremain the most importantone we can ever ask.”Sam Shepard, “Foreword,” in Mary Motley Kalergis, Seen and Heard:Teenagers Talk about Their Lives (New York: Stewart, Tabori, and Chang,1998).may think thisgreat calamitythat happened,way back when – this so-calleddisaster between me and yourmother – you might actuallythink that it had somethingto do with you, but you’re deadwrong. Whatever took placebetween me and her wasstrictly personal.See you in my dreams.”Extract from the short story See You In My Dreams, Sam Shepard,1996,from Cruising Paradise, pub. Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd.