Tuesday, January 29, 2019
Shepard's 'True West' May Not Be So True After All
www.clydefitchreport.com: Sam Shepard’s True West was first produced at San Francisco’s Magic Theatre in July 1980. It’s NYC premiere was at the Public Theater that December. A successful NYC transfer of Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre’s 1982 revival followed and, in 2000, a Broadway revival starred Philip Seymour Hoffman and John C. Reilly alternating as the warring brothers, screenwriter Austin and housebreaker Lee. Now, True West is back on Broadway, at the American Airlines Theatre, with Ethan Hawke and Paul Dano.
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I feel that this article’s author is going through the same cycle of questioning anyone would who goes to analyze a piece for a second or third time. The first time through your viewpoint is more reactionary; your perspective on the piece is developed most by your emotional reaction and what sticks out on more of a surface level. The next time through you dig a bit deeper and question your initial reactions. Often times you don’t get to dismantling them as what you find seems to support your first read, maybe because that is what you were looking for maybe because that is what’s true. Maybe then, however, or maybe when you return again you begin to doubt your first read and pick up signs that could point towards a different meaning, a different interpretation with a different impact than the one you first received. Innately a cycle of overconfidence and intense doubt, human thought tends to go in this cycle through analysis of any situation. I wonder if David Finkle would support his initial read of True West or his new reaction should he return to the show once more, a few more years down the line.
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