Sam Shepard delivers another dose of a particularly American kind of masculinity
crisis, at Southwark Playhouse this time with
The Late Henry Moss. Ray
(Joseph Arkley) receives a call from his older brother Earl (Jack Sandle) to let him
know their father has died. He goes down to the New Mexico shack the titular Henry
lived and died in, to find that the body is still in its deathbed, and nobody's
alerted the authorities. Earl says that he went to New Mexico when a neighbour told
him Henry was ill, but got there too late. His naturally suspicious brother doubts
his story and, convinced Earl actually arrived before their father died, starts to
investigate what really happened. After he pays and bullies a taxi driver (Joe
Evans,) who was one of the last people to see him alive, for information, we see
flashbacks to Henry's (Harry Ditson) final days.
