| Simpatico | |
|---|---|
| Written by | Sam Shepard |
| Date premiered | 14 November 1994 |
| Original language | English |
| Genre | Drama |
Simpatico is a play by American playwright Sam Shepard. It opened at the Joseph Papp Public Theater in New York on the night of 14 November 1994. It starred Ed Harris, Fred Ward, Beverly D'Angelo, James Gammon and Marcia Gay Harden.
In 1999, it was adapted for the screen in the film Simpatico starring Nick Nolte, Jeff Bridges, Sharon Stone, Catherine Keener, and Albert Finney.
In the Fall of 2017, following the death of Sam Shepard that July, Simpatico was presented at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, New Jersey by A Red Orchid Theatre of Chicago, and directed by Dado. The cast was Michael Shannon, Guy Van Swearingen, Mierka Girten, John Judd, Kristen E. Ellis and Jennifer Engstrom.
Shepard claimed that he wrote the first act of Simpatico on the steering wheel of a truck, while driving on the highway.[1]