Performance

VenueThe Dukes
Other spaces: The Round, The Rake, DT3
TownLancaster
CountyLancashire
From11th March 2004
Opened12th March 2004
To3rd April 2004
WhenTue-Thu 19:30. Fri, Sat 20:00. Mar04 25, Apr04 3 Mats 14:00
PricesFrom £5.00. To £12.00.
What is currently on at The Dukes (V523)

True West

T1847029933
Two contrasting visions of America, imagined through the different characters of two brothers: Southern California. Austin, a Los Angeles screenwriter, is house-sitting for his mother while he puts the finishing touches to his current scriptwriting project. His hopes for peace and quiet disappear with the arrival of Lee, a small-time crook and drifter or as he would have it: 'desert survival expert'. When a Hollywood producer arrives to discuss Austin's project, Lee hijacks the meeting with a pitch for a Western based on his own, exaggerated life. The producer is browbeaten into offering Lee a big-bucks advance and Austin agrees to put his brother's vision into words. But their rivalry is too much for them and the tension rises into a dramatic finale. A devastatingly realistic power struggle from inside the mind of 'the bucking bronco of American theater'.
Author Sam Shepard


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Director Ian Hastings
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