The Late Henry Moss by Sam Shepard
“That is no fish. Dead men cannot catch fish. Dead men have no need to fish. They are never hungry.”
A Regional Premiere directed by Katherine Owens
August 27 – September 27, 2003 at Undermain Theatre
Two brothers return to their father’s house to sift through the remains of their violent past in this riveting tale of betrayal by master American playwright Sam Shepard.
In The Late Henry Moss, Sam Shepard returned to his well-tread path of fraternal conflict that he had mimed so thrillingly in Buried Child and True West. This time the conflict is over the recent death of their father, Henry, who drifts through scenes as a ghost, bringing up past memories of hidden family secrets. The new faces of a mysterious woman, Conchalla, who had a relationship with Henry, and a golfing buddy cause the scene to pitch precariously as they boys’ memories of their father do not quite fit the recent truth of his life. This production represented the return of Matthew Posey to Dallas after years of work in Los Angeles and featured a new exciting face on the Dallas scene, Matthew Hutchens. The play received rave reviews as one of Shepard’s more accessible but no less impactful works, and the three leads, Posey, Hutchens, and Bruce DuBose as the patriarch, stole the show.
