Intermission
a creative coffee break from writing the play

Sam Shepard
Fort Sheridan, Illinois, USA
November 5, 1943

Something’s been coming to me lately about this whole question of being lost. It only makes sense to me in relation to an idea of one’s identity being shattered under severe personal circumstances—in a state of crisis where everthing that I’ve previously identified with in myself suddenly falls away. A state of shock, I guess you might call it.

Letter to Joe Chaiken, October 29, 1983
written by Sam Shepard
Joseph Chaiken & Sam Shepard: Letter’s and Texts, 1972-1984, p.128