AGES OF THE MOON Playwright Sam Shepard Featured In The NY Times

Ages Of The Moon playwright Sam Shepard has been featured in the NY Times. The article, titles "Getting Faster With Age: Sam Shepard's New Velocity" is written by Patrick Healy and begins:

When Sam Shepard directed the original 1985 Off Broadway production of his play "A Lie of the Mind," about emotionally scarred young men and the damaged women in their lives, the production ran six hours at first. His latest play, "Ages of the Moon," about two emotionally scarred men in their 60s (the damaged women remain offstage) lasts about 80 minutes.

Time, in other words, has started slipping away in the Shepard canon, and the playwright could not be more at peace with that.

"I see my older plays as clunky relatives to the ones I'm doing now, to be honest, and I don't have a great deal of interest in those older plays," MR. Shepard, who is also an actor, said in an interview over a late lunch in Manhattan recently. He added, "I've come to feel that if I can't make something happen in under an hour and a half, it's not going to happen in a compelling way in a three-hour play."

To read the complete article click here: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/13/theater/13shepard.html?ref=theater

Atlantic Theater Company's (Neil Pepe, Artistic Director; Jeffory Lawson, Managing Director) American premiere production of Pulitzer Prize winner Sam Shepard's AGES OF THE MOON has been extended through Sunday, March 21, 2010 Off-Broadway at Atlantic Theater Company's Linda Gross Theater (336 West 20 Street).

Directed by Jimmy Fay AGES OF THE MOON stars Academy Award®, Golden Globe Award® and Tony Award® nominee Stephen Rea (The Crying Game, Someone Who'll Watch Over Me) and Sean McGinley (the film On a Clear Day) reprising roles originated in the world premiere Abbey Theatre production.

AGES OF THE MOON began previews January 12 and officially opened January 27, 2010.
The limited engagement was originally scheduled through Sunday, March 7, 2010.

AGES OF THE MOON is a gruffly poignant and darkly funny play. Byron (McGinley) and Ames (Rea) are old friends re-united by mutual desperation. Over bourbon on ice, they sit, reflect and bicker until fifty years of love, friendship and rivalry are put to the test at the barrel of a gun.

 

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