The White Horse Theater Company presents Sam Shepard's The Late Henry Moss, directed by Cyndy A. Marion. Written in response to his father's death due to a drunken roadside accident in 1984, Shepard worked on The Late Henry Moss off and on for a period of ten years before completing the final version in 2000. Perhaps his most powerful and autobiographical work to date, the play re-explores well-known Shepard themes-- the dark side of the American family, severed relationships, spousal abuse, alcoholism, and loss of identity-- while putting the previously peripheral or alluded to character of "The Old Man", based on his father, center stage.

The Late Henry Moss takes place in familiar Shepard territory- a small run-down shack on the edge of the New Mexican desert. Two brothers re-unite at the deathbed of their destitute father in an effort to solve the mystery of his sudden demise. What ensues is a fierce filial battle where control of the present requires a painful visit to the past.