Mijo: Road House

Comments (0) By Jef With One F Thursday, Mar 8 2012

Japanese performance art and the B-film Road House: Leave it to the Boo Town theater troupe to bring them together. Benshi is a form of Japanese performance art that originated in the silent film era. While American audiences were reading title cards and listening to live music, Japanese audiences enjoyed a narrator who would not only deliver the lines but would offer commentary and maybe even recite poetry related to the story, all while backed by traditional Japanese instruments.

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Rudyard's

2010 Waugh
Houston, TX 77006

Category: Bars/Clubs

Region: Montrose

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Boo Town presents Mijo, a modified benshi performance of Patrick Swayze’s bouncer movie Road House today with three narrators. In the 1989 film, Swayze arrives in Jasper, Missouri, and gets a job at a violent night spot. In his efforts to clean up the bar, he runs afoul of a corrupt local businessman, and a war of attrition escalates between the two men as the town burns down around them. Only the rugged Swayze, with his iron will — and fighting ability that allows him to rip out a man’s throat with his bare hands — stands between right and wrong. (We can’t wait to hear what the narrators say about that!)

8 and 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 10 and 11:55 p.m. March 16. Rudyard’s, 2010 Waugh. For information, visit www.bootown.org. Pay-what-you-will.
Fri., March 9, 8 & 10 p.m.; Fri., March 16, 1 & 11:55 p.m., 2012