Lloyd Evans Lloyd Evans

Brothers grim | 13 December 2018

Plus: Southwark Playhouse’s Seussical is a 75-minute sensation

issue 15 December 2018

Sam Shepard was perhaps the gloomiest playwright ever to spill his guts into a typewriter. The popularity of his work must owe itself to some deep grudge nursed by America’s elite against the redneck states. True West is a standard Shepard ordeal: a pair of damaged, inadequate, bitter, loveless white males are cudgelling each other to pieces in a dingy Californian hellhole.

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