November 18–22, 1986
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A play by Sam Shepard
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Production Staff
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Director: James Fisher
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Assistant Director: Lynne Galassini-Jones
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Scene and Light Designer: Brian R. Jones '82
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Costume Designer: Laura Conners
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Stage Manager: Alvin Schuh '88
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Cast List
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Lee: Paul Boger '87
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Austin: Gavin Roberts '87
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Saul Kimmer: Bradley Rickel '87
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Mom: Sue Meek Ford
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Production Assistance
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Master Electrician: Kevin Sheridan '90
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Lightboard Operator: Jeff Frederick
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Propsmaster: Mark Tonner '89
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Properties Crew: Mike Dicen '88, Chris Campbell '89, Mark Hayes '88, Chris Brown '89
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Sound Technicians: Tom Bowen, Chris Brown '89, Peter Keenan '89
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Graphics: Laura Conners
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Sam Shepard, winner of five Obie Awards and a Pulitzer Prize for works Tooth of Crime, Buried Child, Fool for Love, and A Lie of the Mind is also a screenwriter (Paris, Texas) and screen actor (Country, The Right Stuff). His True West opens in a gleaming suburban kitchen in Southern California. Austin, a young screenwriter who is house-sitting for his vacationing mother, works furiously on a script which he expects to sell to Hollywood producer Saul Kimmer. His brother, Lee, has dropped in for a visit. A petty thief and unredeemed slob, Lee is about as different from Austin as they come, and the animosity between them is palpable. But Lee does have one half-baked idea for a movie, a “true-to-life Western.” Soon, Lee convinces Kimmer to drop Austin's project for his – and Austin finds himself drafted to help Lee write the screenplay. As the coyotes howl in the distance, the brothers work through the night, piling beer cans and garbage on their mother's immaculate floor.
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NOTE: The photos of the two little boys on the poster are actually from an old Fisher family album. Both Professor Fisher and his brother are pictured.
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-Cody Grady '10, Summer 2008
This page is part of an ongoing project to document the history of the theatre productions performed at Wabash College. If you have information not included on this page, please contact the Theater Department or Professor Dwight Watson (watsond@wabash.edu).
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