Sam Shepard obituary by Ryan Gilbey

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…

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