RODEO TOWN to Make World Premiere at Hollywood Fringe 2013, 6/7-29

"Rodeo Town" makes its World Premiere at this year's Hollywood Fringe Festival. Written by Graham Bowlin and directed by Cameron Strittmatter, the play is produced by Bellwether Bros. Theater Works.

It will run in the East Theatre at The Complex, 6468 Santa Monica Blvd., Hollywood, Calif., tomorrow, June 7- June 29, 2013. Fri. & Sat. at 7 P.M.

Admission: $10. For reservations, call (323) 455-4585 or go online: www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/1198. Estimated running time: 75 minutes.

Richard Hendrix is a yuppie, a dentist, a family man with a rocky marriage. He's on his way to a dental conference in San Diego and, refusing to fly, he's on a long road trip across the desert as he seeks the adventure of the open road. But the engine of his year-old Range Rover makes strange noises, so he pulls off the main highway and drives into a country town not located on the map, a place called Rodeo Town.

Rodeo Town once thrived as a hub of the rodeo circuit, with thousands attending and a bubbling economy. But people's tastes changed, rodeos faded from popularity, and now only a trio of cowboys remain, holding to the remnants of an old way of life. Richard approaches the cowboys (Garth, Lonnie and Kelly) looking for help, but he is soon sucked into their closed mini-society, with its own code of behavior, powered by quantities of Maker's Mark.

Richard has pulled in just in time to witness and participate in Rodeo Town's annual ritual: The one day of the year when women are brought into town so the men can engage in pleasuring with a female companion. This year, there is just one woman, but a startling woman, and after this particular alcohol-drenched festivity, neither Richard nor the cowboys will be the same ever again.