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 TRICKLOCK
COMPANY
118 Washington SE
Albuquerque, NM 87108 USA
Ph. 505.254.8393
Fax. 505.266.2451
www.tricklock.com
TRICKLOCK
COMPANY Presents…
The
Glorious & Bloodthirsty Billy the Kid- The Greatest
Serial Killer of our Time!
A
Wild West Show & Cabaret
Created
by Joe Peracchio & Members of Tricklock Company:
Chad Brummett, Kristín de la O, Kevin R. Elder, Byron
Laurie,
Summer Olsson & Kate Schroeder
"Goofy,
droll and physically unstoppable, this youthful and
exceptionally talented ensemble from New Mexico is so
determined to get in the audience's face and give
everyone a good time that it's tough to resist..."
Chris
Jones ~ Chicago Tribune
Tricklock
Company (Winner
of the 2000 Seattle Fringe Festival Artistic Pick Award,
the prestigious Albuquerque Arts Alliance Bravo Award,
and voted Best Theatre Company five years running in the
Weekly Alibi Best of Burque readers poll) is
hot on the International Tour Trail with its original
production of The
Glorious & Bloodthirsty Billy the Kid – The
Greatest Serial Killer of Our Time! A Wild West Show
& Cabaret - a
high flyin’, six-shootin’, acrobatic carnival
straight outta the tumbleweeds of New Mexico. Having
premiered in March 2002 …Billy
the Kid…has
since traveled all over tarnation, most recently
completing a Wild-West-Wins-the-World tour in 2004 of
Chicago, Krakow, Belgrade and Cologne. And hey Cowboy,
we ain’t tired yet – read more about this exciting
new show!
The
Glorious and Bloodthirsty Billy the Kid…
Tie
up your horses, lock the barn, load the six-shooter and
round up the Women Folk - The
Glorious and Bloodthirsty Billy the Kid,
created and performed by Tricklock Company, is blowin’
through a town near you! Combining the elements of early
frontier theatre, melodrama, circus and cabaret,
Tricklock Company has created a time-warped Wild West
extravaganza like no other! Led by the famed entertainer
Wild Bill, this leathery band of
cowboys-turned-performers tell the hysterically warped
and grotesque story of how the west was won through the
heroic and murderous deeds of its most famous outlaw – Billy the Kid. Spurs a’shining and whips
a’crackin’, The Glorious and Bloodthirsty Billy
the Kid exposes a society "drunk with manifest
destiny"; a tumbleweed landscape filled with a
culture of violence that took a young man with every
potential and twisted him into a ruthless murderer…
Hero…? Icon!
Enter
the dark and twisted carnival of Sheriff Danger and
behold the notorious trigger finger! Gasp at daring
circus feats, drunken saloon brawls, unthinkable
acrobatics, terrifying magicians, and untamed Burlesque
cabaret acts! Indulge your fantasies with the popular
cowboy legends and dime store novels of the day!
Experience a surreal sound-scape like no other! The
score, created for Tricklock by Albuquerque composer and
sound designer CK Barlow, features Tango, Corridos and
Flamenco guitar, Latin Liturgical hymns, dusty trail
songs, and barnyard creatures of 1881! Weep at untold
spectacles of outrageous terror and magnificent beauty!
Set
in 1881, the year Billy the Kid met his demise, this
surreal and high-energy Wild West Show and Cabaret
plunges gleefully into the American fascination with
gunplay and reckless violence. The Glorious and
Bloodthirsty Billy the Kid digs deep into the roots
of America - identifiable to many in the world by its
affinity for wild brutality – and exposes our
culture's tendency to unconsciously and consciously
glorify our outlaws and serial killers. It is a
sociological lineage spurred by Billy Bonney and
embodied by the Columbine Killers, the Belt-Way Sniper,
and even Hannibal the Cannibal. The Glorious &
Bloodthirsty Billy the Kid - The Greatest Serial Killer
of our Time! A Wild West Show & Cabaret paints a
sweet, hysterical and ultimately terrifying portrait of
the boy, the bloodlust and the killers crown we have
passed down from generation to generation - from Billy
the Kid to our youth of today; it asks the question,
“Who will wear it next?”
“…the
rip-roarin’est, rootin’-darn-tootin’est
celebration of bloodshed in the West. Yee-haw!”
–
Steven
Robert Allen
~Albuquerque Weekly Alibi
Tricklock
Company is an international theatre organization founded
in 1993 whose mission is to create, tour, and produce
theatrical productions as a permanent resident company
committed to artistic risk, physicality, absurdism, and
poetic work. Tricklock Company will continue touring The
Glorious and Bloodthirsty Billy the Kid through the
Spring of 2006 – where, for it’s final production,
it will be featured in the Revolutions International
Theatre Festival as a special event celebrating
Albuquerque’s Tri-Centennial anniversary. Learn more
at www.tricklock.com.
Tricklock
Company: New Mexico’s Premier Resident International
Touring Ensemble, a
Non-profit Professional Theatre Organization
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