The Late Henry Moss

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Family intrigue in major new work from America's finest playwright In Bernalillo New Mexico, Ray and Earl return home to mark the passing of their estranged father, Henry. Over a bottle of bourbon and a box of old photographs, tales of their childhoods emerge. As they encounter Henry's bizarre collection of friends, including his wild voracious lover, the colourful circumstances surrounding his death provoke violent suspicion. The Late Henry Moss received its European premiere on 12 January 2006 at the Almeida Theatre. 'The greatest American playwright of his generation ... the most inventive in language and revolutionary in craft' New York magazine

Sam Shepard was born in 1943 in Fort Sheridan, Illinois. He moved to New York from California just a s the off-Broadway theatre scene was emerging. He has written more than forty plays, of which eleven have won 'Obie' awards, besides collections of stories, prose writing and screenplays. His plays in clude Buried Child, The God of Hell, Simpatico, Curse of the Starving Class, True West, Fool for Lov e, A Lie of the Mind, and States of Shock. His screenplay for Paris, Texas won the Golden Palm Award at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival and he directed his own screenplay, Far North, in 1988. A member o f the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Shepard received the Gold Medal for Drama from the Acade my in 1992, and in 1994 he was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame.

"'The greatest American playwright of his generation... the most inventive in language and revolutionary in craft' New York magazine"