Chrysalis Airfares

True West February 24, 2009

Sam Shepard’s work has always been a little disturbing and intentionally provocative, and this play, which is being revived by the SCR, is no different. It’s a tale of two brothers, Austin an ambitious screenwriter and Lee a drifting petty thief. The brothers are thrown together when Lee shows up to share the house Austin is house-sitting for their mother in California. While darkly comic, theirs is a story of sibling rivalry which has endless power shifts, sending them both spiralling downwards into the ultimate showdown.