True West By Sam Shepard
Dayton Theatre Guild presents True West By Sam Shepard Jan 12–28, 2024.
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True West By Sam Shepard
Forty miles east of Hollywood, sibling rivalry takes a hellish turn when a screenwriter is forced to pen his outlaw brother’s wild Western movie script. Tensions rise like the desert heat as the brothers showdown in Sam Shepard’s darkly funny Pulitzer Prize finalist.
This Pulitzer Prize finalist and Tony-nominated play examines the relationship between two estranged brothers. It is set in the kitchen of their mother’s home in the desert, 40 miles east of Los Angeles. Austin, a screenwriter and achiever, is working on a script he has sold to producer Saul Kimmer. Lee is a demented petty thief who drops in and pitches his own idea for a movie to the producer. Sal then wants Austin to junk his bleak, modern love story and write Lee’s trashy Western tale.