To celebrate the invention of the Pop-Up Toaster, I’d like
to share a scene from one of my favorite stage plays: True West by Sam Shepard.
The set-up is this:
Lee (John Malkovic), a career criminal, visits his screenwriter brother
Austin (Gary Sinise) who is house-sits for their vacationing mother. While there, Lee manipulates Austin’s agent
into shelving Austin’s latest screenplay in favor of a terribly conceived
western of Lee’s invention. When Austin
refuses to help Lee write the screenplay, Lee says something to the effect of, “writing
isn’t hard, anyway can write, you could never do what I do… Austin, you couldn’t
even steal a toaster.”
Incidentally, I played Austin in a production of True West
in Charleston, South Carolina.
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