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TRUE WEST (Theatre Exile): Sibling rivalry and the American dream

Sibling rivalry, conflicting personalities, and antithetical lifestyles regress to anti-social antics, primal rage, and role reversal in TRUE WEST, Sam Shepard’s dark comedy about two adult brothers, estranged for five years, who resume their dysfunctional relationship while house-sitting in Southern California for their vacationing mother. Theatre Exile exposes the competition, jealousy, lunacy, and savagery of family politics with a cast, direction, and design that alternately amuse and horrify. Brian Osborne as Lee, an unkempt, liquor-guzzling burglar, delivers the sarcasm, aggression, and anger of the dissolute brother who rejects a respectable suburban existence for the wilderness of the western desert and a lone life of petty crime. more…