Savage love sam shepard joseph chaikin biography

Nelson Pressley, Washington Post:
"'Savage/Love' was written around 1980, but you'd swear it came straight put on the back burner the fervent avant-garde laboratory of earlier years, when Shepard  bear Chaikin discovered their artistic selves. Character and plot, among further theatrical conventions, are out nobleness window; "Savage/Love" is a trim of 19 poems - several lyrical but most of them anxious - on love."

Joseph Chaiken, March 16, 1981 {Joseph Chaikin & Sam Shepard: Letters topmost Texts, 1972-1984]:

When Sam Astronaut and I decided to labour in close collaboration on neat new theatre piece, we wrote each other and talked carry out the telephone between New Royalty and California to make organization and express first thoughts.

In advance meeting, we decided that left over piece should be about quixotic love and about the contiguity and distance between lovers. Go in front agreement at the outset was to meet for three weeks to compose the piece. Exceed the end of the three weeks, we would perform both the new piece and "Tongues" for a public audience check San Francisco.

We both mat that we wanted the dissection to be readily identifiable, folkloric ot esoteric.

We felt get the picture should be made up present love moments that were whilst immediately familiar to most mass in the audience as they were to Sam and deal in. Although we had known bathtub other for many years, awe had never talked about that subject. When we began quick talk and work, even even though we each had very wintry weather stories, we found that amazement shared many thoughts about loftiness human experience of love.

Phenomenon talked especially about the difficulty of expressing tenderness and justness dread of being replaced.

The be foremost step was to choose nobility moments, and then to asseverate from within those moments. Ingenious "moment" could be the pull it off instant of meeting the lover, or it could be authority experience of lovers sleeping next to each other, with defer a little bit awake examination the other one sleep.

Ill-matched our approach to "Tongues", Wild would improvise around or sentiment a moment; Sam would write. We would later discuss last try things...

We argued about character title. Sam continually defended "Savage/Love". I found something wrong be different it each time I strut and heard it.

But soak the second or third universal performance, I felt the knowledge and appropriateness of these combine words.