COWBOY MOUTH / Play
Girl Trip Productions announced a fresh staging of Cowboy Mouth at The Broadwater. Setting the play in 1979 Los Angeles, we tabernacle in the year that punk, rock and new wave collided, changing music forever.
Sam Shepard and Patti Smith co-wrote Cowboy Mouth while living together at the Chelsea Hotel in 1971. Passing a typewriter back and forth, they crafted an inspiring and cautionary tale about using art as deliverance from our own flaws, and relating to someone’s potential instead of who they are— trying to build that person strong enough to love and save us.
“Ultimately, Cowboy Mouth stamps the importance of taking responsibility for our own creativity,” shares Harrison James, co-founder of Girl Trip and director of the play. “We are our own rock and roll saviors by living an authentic life which cannot be escaped from, and concretizing our works in the world, flaws and all.”
“Cowboy Mouth is especially timely now as women globally unite, celebrate and help each other,” she explains. “Rather than abandoning our own work by pouring our creativity into someone else’s career with the hopes they can give us permission, we feed our own artistic journeys, lay down tangible projects, and change the world.”
With the addition of dancers as a modern Greek chorus, James and her team seek a current, relevant Cowboy Mouth that is smart and beautiful— honoring the creative and intimate connection between Shepard and Smith, while thirsting for new ground theatrically.
“Extemporaneous and absolutely beautiful in all its savage bizarreness... Directed, art directed and performed to a rare, extraordinary, odd perfection. Highly Recommended”
