Seattle Rep's TRUE WEST: Beyond the Theatre
Seattle Rep presents TRUE WEST by Sam Shepard from January 17 to February 16, 2020. Librarians at Seattle Public Library created this list of books, music and films to enhance your experience of the show.
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The One Inside
A brooding writer, a dead father, sex, death and mayhem as coyotes howl in the background: this elegiac novel is pure Shepard.
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The Fighter
An aging cage-fighter puts it all on the line to save his family home. Grit-Lit at its finest and most haunting.
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The Toaster Project
Inspired by TRUE WEST to do a little toaster rustling? While we don’t recommend it, Thwaites explains why it is probably better than trying to build one from scratch.
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Let Him Go
After losing her son in a horse-riding accident, Margaret Blackledge heads to Montana to rescue her grandson from a clan of menacing outlaw in-laws.
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Seattle Rep's TRUE WEST website
Two brothers from different walks of life – one a successful screenwriter, the other a restless drifter – clash while housesitting for their mother in a sweltering Los Angeles suburb. This outlandishly funny and unsettling Pulitzer Prize-nominated comedy by acclaimed late playwright Sam Shepard gleefully detonates our misguided myths of family, identity, and the American Dream.
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