DATE CHANGE! This performance has been rescheduled to Monday and Tuesday.
The British performance group Action Hero is bringing A Western, an ode to all things Wild West-ish as seen from across the pond, to the Lone Star State. The show follows your basic good guy-vs.-bad guy plot and includes all the clichés about Western films – straight-shooting heroes, low-life villains and pretty saloon girls. The two-person troupe, Gemma Paintin and James Stenhouse, won’t be onstage alone, though. They’ll pick members from the audience to play a few of the roles and direct the audience as to when to clap or cheer. Expect lots of people in cowboy hats and a few folks splattered with ketchup blood. Set in a bar, the show is also performed in one, which usually helps the extras with their stage fright. Sixto Wagan, co-executive director/performing arts curator of DiverseWorks, which is presenting the show in conjunction with the Fusebox Festival and the British Council, says, “It’s interactive but it’s not touchy-feely. It’s really about British humor and…commentary and fun.” 7:30 p.m. DATE CHANGE: New dates are Monday and Tuesday. Rudyard’s British Pub, 2010 Waugh. For information, call 713-335-3445 or visit www.diverseworks.org. $10.
April 19-20, 7:30 p.m., 2010
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