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    True West
    True West
    True West
    Audiobook1 hour

    True West

    Written by Sam Shepard

    Narrated by Alfred Molina and Full Cast

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Pulitzer-Prize winner Sam Shepard’s classic comedy is a story of estranged brothers Austin and Lee. Shepard compares and contrasts the reality of the two brothers by forcing them to come to terms with each other, with themselves, and with family.

    An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Dean Cameron, Alfred Molina, Charlotte Rae and Francis Guinan.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherL.A. Theatre Works
    Release dateJan 1, 2001
    ISBN9781580815260
    True West
    Author

    Sam Shepard

    Sam Shepard (Fort Sheridan, Illinois, 1942 - Midway, Kentucky, 2017) se convirtió en un mito contemporáneo: polifacético como Boris Vian, legendario como Neal Cassady, amigo y colaborador de los Stones, Patti Smith y Bob Dylan, batería durante años de un grupo de acid rock, actor en películas como Días del cielo y Elegidos para la gloria, coguionista de Zabriskie Point y Paris, Texas, casado con Jessica Lange durante casi treinta años... y, como remate, autor, galardonado con el Pulitzer y el Obie, de más de cuarenta obras teatrales, por las que se le ha llamado el sucesor de Tennessee Williams. En Anagrama ha publicado la novela Espía de la primera persona y Yo por dentro, los libros de relatos Cruzando el paraíso y El gran sueño del paraíso, la obra teatral Locos de amor, los volúmenes misceláneos Luna Halcón, Crónicas de motel y Estados de shock. Al norte. Lengua silenciosa y el libro de crónicas Rolling Thunder: con Bob Dylan en la carretera. Fotografía © Patti Smith

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    • 4/5
      Another little play I read for class. I liked this, but the whole time I was getting a really creepy vibe of Miller's Loman brothers in Death of a Salesman. I got this weird feeling that Lee and Austin were like Happy and Biff if they had been psychotically reincarnated in modern Hollywood. That side, it was an interesting little piece, and I wouldn't mind giving it a go in production.
    • 4/5
      I like it. I like when the canny, streetwise older brother talks his way into the big score, confronts us with our smallness and his potency in that cliche way, and then fails hard because what the fuck does he know about scriptwriting. I like the way the successful yet emasculated younger brother gets his own back, and then turns out to have much weirder desires in him than we'd ever suspect. I like how neither of them ever win. I don't know that I totally liked the unfinishedness--not in a catharsis sense, but it felt like a sketch and needed a last scene where they chase each other through the desert. As it is, there's a tonne of pressure on the actor playing the mom to make the ending mean something--like, we've seen Lee and Austin do their thing already, so any emotional revelations have to come from her. But yeah, this is tight.