True West

Unabridged
Author: Sam Shepard
Narrator: Alfred Molina , Francis Guinan , Charlotte Rae
Genres: Audio Theatre, Drama
Publisher: LA Theatre Works
Date: December 2008
Length: 1 hour, 30 minutes
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Premiered in San Francisco in 1980, True West is one of Sam Shepard's funniest plays, as well as one of his most brutal. 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 Shepard takes gleeful potshots at Hollywood, the myth of the frontier, and the escape fantasies that drive the American imagination.

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I don't get it.

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I don't get it.

Written by Anonymous on November 16th, 2004

  • Book Rating: 1/5

As a "day in the life" type of diversion, it was something to do. But any other few days in the lives of these characters would have been as, if not more, interesting. You can turn off disc 2 (the last) at any point and feel equally satisfied with the ending. Perhaps it could be done as a comedy, but this cast didn't. Too much anger and emotion to laugh with or at them.

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