New Sam Shepard play "takeoff on Republican fascism"

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New York Times
Pointed New Shepard Play to Arrive Just Before Election
By JESSE McKINLEY

Published: October 4, 2004

In a surprise entry to the fall season, Sam Shepard - actor, playwright and sexagenarian heartthrob - has written a new, sharp-elbowed farce with an impressively starry cast. Scheduled to go into rehearsal today, the production is aiming for a late October opening Off Broadway.

The play, "The God of Hell," was written over the summer by Mr. Shepard, 60, who wanted to stage it before the Nov. 2 election. Described as a comedy in three scenes, it follows the travails of a quiet Midwestern couple (to be played by Randy Quaid and J. Smith Cameron) whose lives - and cattle - are sorely abused after the arrival of a nefarious government official (Tim Roth).

In a telephone interview on Friday, Mr. Shepard said that the play was "a takeoff on Republican fascism, in a way," and that he thought it would be more pertinent if seen during the presidential campaign. "I kind of wanted to get it done in New York before the election," he said, adding somewhat sheepishly, "I'm not sure it matters, but I figured I'd get it out there."

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The play will be done on the cheap, Mr. Shepard said, with the actors receiving little pay ("Randy's doing voiceovers just to be able to do it," he said) and New School students providing the support staff and acting as understudies....

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/04/theater/04shep.html

[lakemonster11]

1. Sounds cool.

[ClintonTyree]

2. That might be worth......................

a trip to NYC. Not that I've ever needed a reason to go to the greatest City on Earth , but it sounds like it would be a hoot.

[shirlden]

3. "Republican fascism"

is a term we should be spreading. Three years ago I began referring to GWB as a fascist pig. I quit when I realized I was demeaning pigs. Now, more and more people are beginning to see that the neocons and all their backers are just old fashioned Nazi-fascists. All Americans who claim to be Republicans need to be shown that their party has morphed into an abomination. The good folks, and their are some, in that party need to wake up and take their party back.

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