TILLAMOOK — The Tillamook Association of Performing Artists opens its next production, “True West,” this weekend.

The show hits the stage at the Barn Community Theater, located at 1204 Ivy St., Friday, Sept. 26 with a gala reception. Opening night tickets include the show and one free beverage.

Written by Sam Shepard and directed by Craig Wakefield, “True West” is a tale of brotherly love and competition, Hollywood producers and stolen toasters. It is a character study that examines the relationship between Austin, a screenwriter, and his older brother, Lee. The play is set in the kitchen of their mother’s home 40 miles east of Los Angeles.

Well-educated Austin is working out a screenplay deal that he is pitching to his connection in Hollywood – until his con-man brother Lee takes over and comes up with his own big idea, stealing much more than just the neighbors’ TVs. Challenges are issued, many drinks are downed and the siblings find that they might not be such opposites after all. In the process, the conflict between the brothers creates a heated situation in which their roles as a successful family man and nomadic drifter are somehow reversed, and each man finds himself admitting that he had somehow always wished he were in the other’s shoes.

“True West” will run at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Sept. 26, 27, Oct. 3, 4, 10 and 11 and at 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 5 and 12. Doors open 30 minutes prior to showtime.

Call Diamond Art Jewelers at 503-842-7940 to reserve advance tickets.