"The Unseen Hand"

Title"The Unseen Hand"
Year for Search1972
Authors[Rogers], [Samuel Shepard] III(b. 1943)
Tertiary AuthorsShepard, Sam [pseud.]
Secondary TitleThe Unseen Hand and Other Plays
Pagination1-50
Date Published1972
PublisherBobbs-Merril
Place PublishedIndianapolis, IN
KeywordsMale author, US author
Annotation

A baboon/man from a future authoritarian dystopia in which brain implants control people travels into the past to find three brothers (two dead) to help overthrow the dystopia.

Info Notes

Play first performed at La Mama in New York City, December 26, 1969.

Pseudonym

Sam Shepard [pseud.]

Author Note

(b. 1943)

Full Text

1972 [Rogers, Samuel Shepard, III]  (b. 1943). “The Unseen Hand.” By Sam Shepard [pseud.]. In his The Unseen Hand and Other Plays (Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merril, 1972), 1-50. Play first performed at La Mama in New York City, December 26, 1969. The author was born Samuel Shepard Rogers, IV.

A baboon/man from a future authoritarian dystopia in which brain implants control people travels into the past to find three brothers (two dead) to help overthrow the dystopia.