PORTLAND — Mad Horse Theatre Company will present the Maine premiere of Sam Shepard’s “The Late Henry Moss,” opening on Thursday, March 10, and running Thursday to Sunday through March 27.

In this latest installment of Shepard’s celebrated cycle of “family” plays, two brothers meet up following the death of their estranged alcoholic father. As the brothers struggle to piece together the events surrounding his death, the elusiveness of memory and the legacy of dysfunction become apparent — with devastating and violent consequences.

The cast includes Mad Horse Company members Peter Brown and Burke Brimmer, and guest artists Matt Delamater, Karen Ball and Harlan Baker. Playing the role of Henry Moss is David Blair, who was director of Vintage Repertory Theater in the 1990s.

Family is a theme that Shepard has returned to repeatedly over his career, producing such acclaimed plays as “True West,” “Curse of the Starving Class,” “Fool for Love,” “A Lie of the Mind” and “Buried Child,” for which he earned a Pulitzer Prize.

“’The Late Henry Moss’ is the most directly autobiographical of these plays,” said director Chris Horton. “Shepard’s father was plagued by alcoholism and the violence and anger that often accompany this life-destroying disease. Shepard approaches the subject matter with his typically dark humor, posing questions about this most important relationship in a man’s life.”

Performances will be at Lucid Stage, 29 Baxter Blvd. For ticket information, call 899-3993 or visit www.lucidstage.com.

Matt Delamater and Harlan Baker rehearse a scene from Mad Horse Theatre Company’s “The Late Henry Moss,” opening Thursday, March 10, in Portland.