True West presented by All That Theatre

Name: True West presented by All That Theatre
Start: 2026-12-02T19:30:00+11:00
End: 2026-12-12T21:00:00+11:00

The Royal Exchange

Wed 02 Dec '26 – Sat 12 Dec '26

Booking details

Two men seated in a desert landscape beneath a blue sky.

Overview

All That Theatre is bringing Sam Shepard's darkly comic American classic to Newcastle. Aspiring screenwriter Austin is house-sitting in suburban Southern California, quietly working on the screenplay he hopes will impress a bigshot Hollywood producer. Then his older brother Lee, a desert-dwelling drifter, thief and general menace, stubles through the door. When Lee pitches his own trashy Western to Austin's producer, a vicious, darkly funny…

All That Theatre is bringing Sam Shepard's darkly comic American classic to Newcastle.

Aspiring screenwriter Austin is house-sitting in suburban Southern California, quietly working on the screenplay he hopes will impress a bigshot Hollywood producer. Then his older brother Lee, a desert-dwelling drifter, thief and general menace, stubles through the door. When Lee pitches his own trashy Western to Austin's producer, a vicious, darkly funny battle for success, identity and control follows.

Sam Shepard's True West is a volatile modern classic about sibling rivalry, masculinity, ambition, creativity and the destructive ways we become the people we hate most.

All That Theatre's production of Sam Shepard's True West is licensed exclusively by Music Theatre International (Australasia).