"The entire play is a parody of the traditional western. Instead of the classic gunfight, you have the golf match. Instead of sitting by a campfire, Austin's sitting at a typewriter by candlelight; the only way you feel inspired to write is to try to recreate what the forefathers had, in terms of candlelight, the cabins, the wilderness. But it's a suburb, 40 miles from LA. There are cars going past and kids screaming in the street. That's what I mean by saying Shepard saw right through these constructed notions of America."
