True West: In a play about two brothers working together on a screenplay, the idea here seems to be to explore not only the ways in which western films are entirely dependent on tropes, but also the ways in which stories that attempt to defy tropes are now full of their own tropes. We start with a brother working on a screenplay in Los Angeles as his older, scumbag, and recently returned from the desert living a life of derelict and affected squalor. As they […]