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Angel City

Full-Length Play, Satire/Political Satire  /  1w, 5m

"An evening of surrealist high jinks with serious perceptions underneath.... It is his most playful work, and one of his most accessible." - Village Voice

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    1w, 5m

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Summary
Once again, Shepard deals with the landscape of American mythology this time with the greatest American myth of all: Hollywood. A young stuntman is hired by a movie producer to save his $8 million dollar picture from disaster by turning it into a disaster movie. The stuntman tries to maintain his own integrity, but comes to realize that he is more a part of the Great American Dream Machine than he had ever known.

Available in the collection Fool for Love and Other Plays.

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"An evening of surrealist high jinks with serious perceptions underneath.... It is his most playful work, and one of his most accessible." - Village Voice

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  • Minimum Fee: $110 per performance

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Sam Shepard

Sam Shepard’s first New York plays, Cowboys and The Rock Garden, were produced by Theatre Genesis in 1964. For several seasons, he worked with Off-Off-Broadway theatre groups including La MaMa and Caffe Cino. Eleven of his plays won Obie Awards, including Chicago, The Tooth o ...

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