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Start: You don’t have to take it out on...

Austin

True West

Sam Shepard

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Character
Gender
Male
Playing Age
Adult
Style
Comedic
Act/Scene
Act 2 Scene 8
Time & Place
A house in Southern California, 1980s. Very early morning.
Length
Short
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Thirteen Plus (PG-13)

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Start: You don’t have to take it out on my typewriter ya know. It’s not the machine’s fault that you can’t write. It’s a sin to do that to a good machine.
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End: What about Lee Trevino? What do you think he would’ve said when he was batting balls around with broomsticks at the age of nine. Impoverished.

For full extended monologue, please refer to clips or the script edition cited here: Sam Shepard, True West, Samuel French, 1981, pp. 52-53.

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