Hilton Als: Sam Shepard’s female bodies in distress.
When it comes to young directors who know what to do with Sam Shepard’s chimerical, philosophically complex writing, Ethan Hawke has most of his contemporaries beat. In 2010, Hawke staged a revival of Shepard’s brutal and mystifying 1985 play, “A Lie of the Mind.” . . . (Subscription required.)