Operation Sidewinder

Production notes

Two-act play with music.
First production: Vivian Beaumont Th., Lincoln Center, New York, 12 Mar. 1970 (dir. Michael A. Schultz). The play was due to be staged at Yale in early 1969, but Shepard withdrew rights after protests over the portrayal of black revolutionaries.
Published: Operation Sidewinder (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1970); Four Two-Act Plays; The Unseen Hand and Other Plays. Earlier version in Esquire, May 1969.


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