True West

True West at Theatre Calgary in downtown Calgary invites audiences to experience Sam Shepard’s gripping modern classic about fractured family bonds. This tense, darkly funny drama follows disciplined screenwriter Austin and his estranged brother Lee, a drifter and petty thief, as a quiet work retreat spirals into a volatile power struggle. Hollywood ambition crashes into long-buried resentment, and the line between creation and destruction blurs in surprising, unsettling ways. True West is raw, psychologically charged theatre that digs into identity, rivalry, and the fragile promise of the American dream. This production features Calgary brothers Joe Perry and Stafford Perry, returning to the Theatre Calgary stage to bring Shepard’s iconic sibling conflict vividly to life.