Event

True West by Sam Shepard

"True West" is a play about two brothers who find themselves together again at Mom's house. One brother is a successful screenwriter. The other is a petty thief. Their reunion forces each to face hard truths about themselves and how they process the world around them.

"It's clear, funny, naturalistic. It's also opaque, terrifying, surrealistic. If that sounds contradictory, you're on to one aspect of Shepard's winning genius; the ability to make you think you're watching one thing while at the same time he's presenting another." San Francisco Chronicle

In an interview with Robert Coe in New York Times Magazine, 1980, the playwright, Sam Shepherd said of True West, "I wanted to write a play about double nature..I just wanted to give a taste of what it feels like to be two-sided. It's a real thing, double nature. I think we're split in a much more devastating way than psychology can ever reveal. It's not so cute... It's something we've got to live with."

Directed by Susan Able Barry, the show features real-life brothers Clifford and Patrick Able, as well as Rene Ruelas and Georgia Hamilton. True West contains adult language and flying kitchenware.