TRUE WEST
Sam Shepard
Directed by Paul Shepard
January 19 through February 17, 2007
Sons of a desert dwelling alcoholic clash over a film script. Austin, the
achiever, is working on a script he has sold to producer Sal Kimmer when Lee,
a demented petty thief, drops in. He pitches his own idea for a movie to
Kimmer, who then wants Austin to junk his bleak, modern love story and write
Lee's trashy Western tale. This American classic explores alternatives that
might spring from the demented terrain of the California landscape.
"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.
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