Ethan Hawke has most of his contemporaries beat. In 2010, Hawke staged a revival of Shepard’s brutal and mystifying 1985 play, “A Lie of the Mind.” Hawke’s intellectually self-assured version of Shepard’s study of sibling rivalry, brutalized women, and errant masculinity—one character can’t remember whether he killed his wife or not—sped up the slack moments and didn’t play into Shepard’s often halfhearted attempts to give his characters naturalistic narrative ends. Instead,