True West: If You’re In Nashvegas, Go See It

I discovered via the local coffeeshop that a local troupe, The People’s Branch, is putting on a production of Sam Shepard’s True West at The Belcourt. While I can’t speak for the troupe-having never seen their work before-I can vouch for True West: it’s a great play, and has one of the single most detailed sound piece instructions of any play I’ve ever seen or read.

Here’s the synopsis from The People’s Branch which is pretty accurate:

Austin is a stable, successful Hollywood screenwriter, Lee his menacing vagabond brother, and True West is the story of their attempt to trade lives.

Their tragicomic quest to change identity ends in a stalemate, but along the way this Pulitzer Prize-winning author takes gleeful potshots at Hollywood, the myth of the frontier, and the escape fantasies that drive the American imagination.

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