True West Summary
Sam Shepard

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True West Summary

Sam Shepard's very successful playwrighting career began in the mid-1960s when his often bizarre and anti-realistic plays were produced in experimental off- off-Broadway theatres such as La Mama and Theatre Genesis at St. Mark's Church m-the-Bowery. The launching of Shepard's playwrighting career is generally attributed to a 1967 review by Michael Smith in the Village Voice. Smith's enthusiastic appraisal of the first two of Shepard's early plays—Cowboys and The Rock Garden...

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