Coho Presents COWBOY MOUTH For One Show Only, Tonight 9/28

CoHo Presents Cowboy Mouth by Sam Shepard, Directed by Philip Cuomo. Starring Katie O'Grady, starring in Rid Of Me with Storm Large and Sean McGrath, writer and performer with Live Wire! Radio

Slim and Cavale are sequestered in messy hotel squalor. Cavale has abducted Slim at gunpoint, her toxic appeal rendering Slim paralyzed, but restless. He attempts to reject Cavale's efforts to spur him into rockstardom. Slim is, in a very powerful way, a victim, but of his own irresistible urge to enact his fantasies, not so much of Cavale's kidnapping. Slim's fits of fury are expressions of his struggle with the meaning of art, and the role of the artist. Cavale is an unreliable muse, frequently sliding from lucidity into bizarre fantasy.

A few gossipy tidbits:

At the time of its writing, the life of "Cowboy Mouth"'s Slim mirrored that of Shepard's, who famously fled the role after only one performance playing opposite his real-life lover Patti Smith.

The expression "cowboy mouth" originates from Bob Dylan's "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands," which was co-written with the rock singer Patti Smith

What's Next at CoHo- Fool For Love by Sam Shepard

CoHo opens its fourteenth season with Fool for Love by Sam Shepard; a vicious, erotic and funny tale set in a run down hotel room on the edge of the Mojave Desert where Eddie and May fight tooth and nail to escape their catastrophic past. Dark secrets are revealed in a haunting story of gripping jealousy, brutal betrayal, and the deepest kind of love. Told with reckless abandon and infinite care by one of America's most renowned and audacious playwrights, Fool for Love is full of unforgettable images and heartbreaking truth.

You may purchase single tickets online:

September 28 @ 7:30
One night only!
Pay-What-You-Can
Buy tickets @ www.cohoproductions.org.

Or call the box office at (503) 205-0715.

Coho Productions is a non-profit theatre company located just off NW 23rd Avenue in Portland, Oregon. Coho's mission is unique in that it co-produces with Portland area theatre artists. Each year Coho solicits submissions and selects three shows for its main season. Since 1995, Coho has co-produced 34 plays, including five world premieres, and won 16 Drammy Awards for outstanding achievement in Portland theatre. Supporting new plays remains a major part of Coho's mission.