Greg Wohead's THE MANY APOLOGISES OF PECOS BILL Set for The Marlborough Theatre

The Marlborough Theatre will welcome international artist to Brighton in November through South East touring scheme house.

Using true storytelling accompanied by banjo and guitar music, Texan Greg Wohead creates a compelling performance about being far away from home: about how identity can be connected to a place, and how that place (and identity) warps, stretches and grows over distance and time.

The Many Apologies of Pecos Bill is made up of interweaving Texas tales told to the audience by Greg. As the lines between truth and exaggeration begin to blur, banjo and guitar music, by turns gentle and exuberant, provides a pathway through the confusion; sometimes in the background painting a picture of the desert landscape, other times punctuating the story with old-time songs sung by Greg and Mat.

Greg Wohead said: "for me, this is a very personal show. It's about the idea of home and being far away from a place to which your identity is linked. I started making the show when I had spent enough time away from home to forget a lot of things about it and to make up a lot of things about it. I loved that, so I made a show that's basically a tall tale about real life"

This is the story of two Texans. One Texan falls in love with a cowgirl who rides on the back of a giant catfish. His name is Pecos Bill. He was raised by coyotes, used a rattlesnake as a lasso, and grew up to be the greatest cowboy of all time. The other Texan once passed out from exhaustion on a 3-mile hike. His name is Greg. This is where Bill and Greg meet, merge and swap stories.

Event listings:

Saturday 8th November 2014 7:30 p.m.

Running Time: 60 minutes | Suitable for ages 13+

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