Playboy After Hours
August, 1970
Not long ago, we ventured off-Broadway to catch a remarkable double bill--The Unseen Hand plus Forensic and the Navigators--that was soon to close but turned out to be better than the New York critics had indicated in their death notices. We didn't know, as we entered the Astor Place Theater's unprepossessing lobby, that the lean, long-haired drummer whaling away in the corner as part of a high-decibel group known as Lothar and the Hand People was the author himself: 26-year-old Sam Shepard, who...
