Cowboys Are My Weakness

By Pam Houston

Conceived and Adapted for the Stage by Myra Platt
Originally Produced and Developed In the “Book-It Style” ™ By
Book-It Repertory Theater ™, Jane Jones and Myra Platt, Founding Co-Artistic Directors

New Mexico Premiere
Directed by Dodie Montgomery
And featuring Tricklock Company members Chad Brummett, Kevin R. Elder, Kerry Morrigan, Summer Olsson, Kate Schroeder, and guest artist Drew Pollock

Live Music performed by
Don Bicknell, Casey Mraz, and Aleah Waldron

Tricklock Company (2008 Winner of Best Live Theater Company, “Best Of Burque”) announces the New Mexico Premiere of Cowboys Are My Weakness, a sensually wild ride adapted from the critically-acclaimed novel by Pam Houston. Cowboys… is a collection of strong, shrewd, and very funny stories, in which we meet smart women who are looking for the love of a good man, and men who are wild and hard to pin down.

"I've always had this thing for cowboys, maybe because I was born in New Jersey. But a real cowboy is hard to find these days, even in the West."

Our heroines are part daredevil, part philosopher, all acute observers of the nuances of modern romance. They go where their cowboys go, they meet cowboys who don't look the part — and they have staunch friends who give them advice when the going gets rough. Cowboys Are My Weakness is a refreshing and realistic look at men and women—together and apart.

"A collection of smart, surefooted stories, full of humor, intelligence and a kind of steely-eyed wonder....These are the stories that might have emerged had an intelligent woman followed Hemingway around."
—San Francisco Chronicle

To celebrate the Gala opening of Cowboys are my Weakness, Tricklock Company is pleased to announce that author Pam Houston will be joining the Company for its opening night performance! Ms. Houston's books will be on sale at the event, and Gala performance audience members will have a unique opportunity to meet the author, purchase signed books, and enjoy a catered celebration, Tricklock style! Tickets for the opening night Gala are $25 for ALL ADMISSION.

About the Author...
Pam Houston attained critical and popular success with the 1992 publication of her first short-story collection, Cowboys Are My Weakness. The volume garnered its author not only impressive sales and reviews but also media attention in the form of magazine profiles, interviews, and several talk-show appearances, suggesting that her stories of adventurous women rafting through white-water rapids, guiding Dall sheep hunters in Alaska, and attempting to establish relationships with men of the American West tapped a little-explored but ripe territory in contemporary consciousness. Cowboys Are My Weakness was named a New York Times Notable Book in 1992, won the 1993 Western States Book Award, and was later translated into at least nine languages. A review in The New York Times (15 July 1992) stated, "Her collection of short stories is an odyssey of a young woman who develops a habit of bad love and uses adventure both to recover and carve a place for herself in the American West."

Cowboys… was conceived, adapted and originally directed by Book-It Repertory Theater’s Co-Artistic Director, Myra Platt. In the unique Book-It style that preserves the narrative text as it is spoken, not by a single “narrator” but as dialogue by the characters in the production, actors perform the text as written by the novel’s author, bringing an exciting, one-of-a-kind voice to the live stage. The world premiere production of Cowboys Are My Weakness, by Pam Houston, and adapted by Myra Platt, was commissioned and originally produced by Book-It Repertory Theatre, Seattle, WA. It is produced with permission.

About Book-It Repertory Theater...

Book-It Repertory Theatre is a non-profit organization dedicated to transforming great literature into great theatre through simple and sensitive production and to inspiring its audiences to read.

Book-It Repertory Theatre was founded by a group of theatre artists who loved to read. Recognizing the immense wealth of story, character and language that exists in classic and contemporary literature, these artists wanted to create opportunities for audiences and fellow artists to experience theatre through imaginative stagings of written narrative. By creating theatre exclusively from literature, Book-It strives to bring theatre back to its roots—storytelling. From its early beginnings as a collective of artists experimenting in a workshop setting, to its current day as one of Seattle's most thriving, unique theatres with over 1,800 subscribers, Book-It's main purpose has been and still is to bring literature to life on stage, and inspire people to read.

To learn more about Book-It and to read about their upcoming season visit their website by clicking here.