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Kit Harington (Games of Thrones) and Johnny Flynn (Beast) smolder and burn as sparring brothers in Sam Shepard’s darkly comic 1980 drama. The live theatre production of True West was performed at the Vaudeville Theatre in London, United Kingdom, in 2019. It was produced by Joseph Smith and John Brant for Smith & Brant Theatricals and James Bierman for Empire Street Productions.

Two days before Christmas 1996, the broken, battered body of Sophie Toscan du Plantier was found outside her vacation home in West Cork, a serene region on Ireland’s idyllic southern coast. Decades later, no one has been charged with the murder, but the aggrieved inhabitants of West Cork are convinced they know who did it - and he still lives among them.

Whether sitting down with a militia member seeking to protect his rural Utah town from Antifa or talking with grassroots organizers working across ideological divides, Gaines Quammen brings to life connections and contradictions that shape our politics and our lives far beyond the West.

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE A revelatory biography of the world-famous playwright and actor Sam Shepard, whose work was matched by his equally dramatic life, including collaborations with the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan as well as tumultuous relationships with Patti Smith, Joni...

Mannequin pieds et jambes, Leeloo collectionne les objets Disney ainsi que les aventures d'un soir. Cette pétillante femme-enfant éprise de joie de vivre milite même activement pour le Front de Libération des Tétons en Otage ! Elle s'embarque dans un fabuleux voyage au cœur de l'Ouest américain avec ses amis. Parmi eux se trouve Elyas, kiné et champion de base-jump, dont le sex-appeal magnétique lui attire d'improbables ennuis au quotidien. Son béguin d'enfance... L'homme de ses rêves.

Western Australia, 1988. After betraying the Knights motorcycle gang, 17-year-old Lee Southern flees to the city with nothing left to lose. Working as a rogue tow-truck driver in Perth, he is captured by right-wing extremists whose combination of seduction and blackmail keeps him on the wrong side of the law and under their control. As the true nature of what drives his captors unfolds, Lee becomes an unwilling participant in a breathtakingly ambitious plot - and a cold-blooded crime that will show just how much he, and everyone else, still has to lose.

Pulitzer Prize-winner Sam Shepard's classic comedy is a story of estranged brothers Austin and Lee. Shepard compares and contrasts the reality of the two brothers by forcing them to come to terms with each other, with themselves, and with family.

It is the year 1715, and Thomas True has arrived on old London Bridge with a dangerous secret. One night, lost amongst the squalor of London's hidden back streets, he finds himself drawn into the outrageous underworld of the molly houses. Meanwhile, carpenter Gabriel Griffin struggles to hide his double life as Lotty, the mollies' silent guard. When the queen of all 'he-harlots', Mother Clap, confides in him about a deadly threat, he realises his friends are facing imminent execution. To the horror of all mollies, there is a rat amongst them.

Our understanding of the American West has moved far beyond pop culture in recent years. The legendary people and events we associate with the Wild West - the last stand at the Alamo, the Battle of Little Bighorn, the exploits of Calamity Jane, the hardships of the Oregon Trail - are even more fascinating once the historical realities have been separated from the myths.

Born in 1846 in Ireland at the start of the "Great Hunger", James Kinnier Wilson emigrated to Philadelphia to start a new life at 17 years old. After his life took a dramatic turn, he found himself attending Princeton and then a college in Scotland, where he met Agnes Hately, the talented daughter of a famous figure in the Scottish "Disruption" - the emergence of the Free Church of Scotland.

Life on the American frontier wasn't easy. Pioneers had to deal with tough challenges including rough terrain, extreme weather, starvation, and dangerous animals. But in spite of the hardships, people persevered. Follow the true stories of those who braved the frontier and what they had to do to survive in this book from the Fighting to Survive series.

“This is the face of war as only those who have fought it can describe it.”—Senator John McCain Fallujah: Iraq’s most dangerous city unexpectedly emerged as the major battleground of the Iraqi insurgency. For twenty months, one American battalion after another tried to quell the...

When wealthy Wyoming cattle barons hired an army of assassins with a 70-name death list in 1892, they nearly got away with mass murder — protected by corrupt courts, complicit cavalry, and a president who looked the other way. Host Jack Maddox uncovers the documented conspiracy, explosive trials, and brutal class warfare that defined America's most notorious range war. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

On a sultry August morning in 1970, the battered body of a young woman was hoisted from a dry well just outside Hogansville, Georgia. Author and investigator Clay Bryant was there, witnessing the macabre scene. Then fifteen, Bryant was tagging along with his father, Buddy Bryant, Hogansville chief of police. The victim, Gwendolyn Moore, had been in a violent marriage. That was no secret. But her husband had connections to a political machine that held sway over the Troup County Sheriff's Office overseeing the case. To the dismay and bafflement of many, no charges were brought.

Jack Maddox explores America's deadliest range wars, where cattle barons, small ranchers, and hired guns fought brutal battles over grass, water, and barbed wire. From the Johnson County invasion to the Pleasant Valley bloodbath, discover the violent land conflicts that shaped the West long after the frontier supposedly closed. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

Host Jack Maddox unearths the true story of Nevada's Comstock Lode through mining records, legal battles, and firsthand accounts. Explore disputed claims, deadly underground conditions, and the fortunes that flowed from Virginia City's silver tunnels to San Francisco's elite. History told through the documents and voices of those who lived it. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

Host Jack Maddox investigates the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864, where a promised safe haven became a killing field at dawn. Through eyewitness accounts and survivor testimony, discover how this devastating betrayal destroyed peace efforts and reshaped the American frontier forever. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

Host Jack Maddox reconstructs the Lincoln County War through court records and survivor testimony, exposing the corrupt alliances, economic monopolies, and dueling badges that transformed New Mexico Territory into a lawless battlefield where Billy the Kid became legend and institutional power crumbled into violence. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

Host Jack Maddox investigates the unwritten codes that governed life and death on the American frontier, testing legendary rules of honor against brutal historical reality. Through famous gunfights and court records, discover whether the West's code of conduct was genuinely followed or simply frontier mythology. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

Host Jack Maddox separates fact from fiction in the legendary violence of Dodge City, using firsthand accounts and eyewitness testimony to reveal what really happened when bullets flew, badges meant little, and newspapers transformed frontier chaos into American mythology. Each episode examines a deadly flashpoint where law, vigilante justice, and reputation collided. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai