Theatre at Tarleton Presents
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, September 19, 2019
STEPHENVILLE, Texas — Theatre at Tarleton opens its 2019-20 season withTrue West by Sam Shepard, the dramatic story of brothers caught in a sibling rivalry that will leave a family broken and the audience shaken.
The production runs Tuesday-Saturday, Sept. 24-28, in the theater of the Clyde H. Wells Fine Arts Center. Admission is $10 adults; $8 seniors, children and Tarleton faculty and staff; and $5 for Tarleton students. Performances are at 7:30 nightly.
This American classic explores alternatives that might spring from the terrain of a tired California landscape. Sons of a desert-dwelling alcoholic and a suburban wanderer clash over a film script.
Austin, the achiever, is working on a script he has sold to a producer when Lee, his disturbed petty thief brother, drops in. Lee pitches his own idea for a movie to the producer, who then wants Austin to junk his bleak, modern love story and write Lee’s trashy Western tale.
True West was a finalist for the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It has been revived on Broadway three times and was a hit film in 1984, with another version in 2018.
Tyson Zinsmeyer, a sophomore from D’Hanis, Texas, and senior Cameron Hardee of Houston play the two brothers. Dallas freshman Rebecca Falco is their mother, and sophomore Noah Luce rounds out the cast as Saul Kimmer.
Theatre at Tarleton season tickets are on sale now. Visit http://tarletonstate.us/truewest or call 254-968-9634 for information.
Tarleton, founding member of The Texas A&M University System, provides a student-focused, value-driven education marked by academic innovation and a dedication to transform today’s scholars into tomorrow’s leaders. It offers degree programs to more than 13,000 students at Stephenville, Fort Worth, Waco, Midlothian, RELLIS Academic Alliance in Bryan, and online, emphasizing real-world learning experiences that address societal needs while maintaining its core values of tradition, integrity, civility, excellence, leadership and service.
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Contact: Phil Riddle, News and Information Specialist
817-484-4415
priddle@tarleton.edu
