For nine days this month, the Flight Path Theatre in Bulanaming/Marrickville will host an arts festival with a difference. Each night of Broke Down Music Box, which runs from March 21 to 30, will see a performance of “Cowboy Mouth”, a one-act play from Sam Shepard and punk trailblazer Patti Smith, followed by live music from some of the area’s best independent bands.
“Cowboy Mouth” is an urban fable about a woman who kidnaps a young man at gunpoint to make him a pop prophet, “like a rock-and-roll Jesus with a cowboy mouth.” Critics have described it as “a sizzling, surrealistic 70 minutes”, and “weird, wild, and rather wonderful.” Directed by Anna Houston, Natassa Zoe and Austin Hayden star in the production. Then each show will close out with one of the following acts.
21 March 2024 – Dande and The Lion (Preview)
22 March 2024 – Dande and The Lion (Opening Night)
23 March 2024 – Day Release
24 March 2024 – The Bernies
26 March 2024 – Georgie Jones
27 March 2024 – Locked in Lummo
28 March 2024 – The Polymics
29 March 2024 – Dear Scarlett
30 March 2024 – Elysae
Flight Path Theatre is at Addison Road Community Centre, 142 Addison Road, Bulanaming/Marrickville. Tickets for the Broke Down Music Box events are on sale now from the theatre’s website.