Playwright, actor and director who exposed the gap between myth and reality in American lifeSam Shepard, who has died aged 73 from complications of ALS, a form of motor neurone disease, excelled as an actor, screenwriter, playwright and director. In each of those disciplines he challenged and reimagined mythic American archetypes. He wrote nearly 50 plays; the most coruscating of them, such as the Pulitzer prize-winn…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36AM on August 1, 2017