True West by Sam Shepard
Comedy / 3m 1f / Int. Recently revived at New York's Circle in the Square where Seymour Hoffman and John C. Reilly alternated playing the roles of the brothers this American classic explores alternatives that might spring from the demented terrain of the California landscape. Sons of a desert dwelling alcoholic and a suburban wanderer 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 pitch
Sam Shepard is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of more than forty-five plays. He was a finalist for the W. H. Smith Literary Award for his story collection Great Dream of Heaven, and he has also written the story collection Cruising Paradise, two collections of prose pieces, Motel Chronicles and Hawk Moon, and Rolling Thunder Logbook, a diary of Bob Dylan's 1975 Rolling Thunder Review tour. As an actor he has appeared in more than thirty films, and he received an Oscar nomination in 1984 for his performance in The Right Stuff. His screenplay for Paris, Texas won the Grand Jury Prize at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival, and he wrote and directed the film Far North in 1988. Shepard's plays, eleven of which have won Obie Awards, include Buried Child, The Late Henry Moss, Simpatico, Curse of the Starving Class, True West, Fool for Love, and A Lie of the Mind, which won a New York Drama Desk Award. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Shepard received the Gold Medal for Drama from the Academy in 1992, and in 1994 he was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780573617287 |
| ISBN 10 | 0573617287 |
| Title | True West |
| Author | Sam Shepard |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Samuel French Inc |
| Year published | 2010-03-26 |
| Number of pages | 71 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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