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MFA Collaboration Series 2015 presents:
TRUE WEST
By Sam Shepard Directed by Hannah Todd
Friday, February 27, 2015 at 8:00PM

Hal & Martha Hyer Wallis studio theater space
1949 Campus Drive
Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts
Evanston, IL 60208
Located on the southeast part of the Evanston campus just off Sheridan Road and Campus Drive.


In a play that is simultaneously a ludicrous comedy and a hard punch to the gut, Austin and Lee, two brothers who seem to be polar opposites, encounter each other after five years of no contact. Fearful, contemptuous, and envious of each other’s lives, they begin a battle for supremacy in which they rip apart each other, themselves, and their mother’s suburban southern California kitchen. Slowly abandoning all pretense of civilization, the brothers devolve into their most primal, savage selves – into the kind of men they see in Westerns, the kind of men they want – and fear – to be.