Variations on a Theme
DIRECTOR NANCY MECKLER ON A PARTICLE OF DREAD
Director Nancy Meckler began collaborating with Legacy Playwright Sam Shepard in the early 1970s, when she
directed the world premieres of his plays Action and Killer’s Head. She went on to direct the premiere of Curse
of the Starving Class at the Royal Court Theatre, the London premiere of Buried Child at the Hampstead Theatre,
and True West for Shared Experience, where Meckler was Artistic Director for many years. Literary Associate Sarah
Rose Leonard spoke to Meckler hours before the first preview of her production of Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s Play
Strindberg at the Bath Theatre Royal in England.
Signature: Many of us know how the story of Oedipus
ends, but Particle disorients our know