FOCUS: HUMOR—IN THE JOCULAR VEIN This gloriously dark comedy features a well-loved cinematic scenario: A group of outcasts comes together to put on a show. Downtrodden, depressed, and otherwise not-quite-rightin-the-head, this bunch of (mostly) lovable misfits lives in a claustrophobic, one-horse industrial town where not much is going on. When a big-city director comes back to restart his hometown theater, there isn’t a “real” actor to be found, so he takes these misfits and molds them into a troupe. They mount—what else?—a classic Hollywood
Western. Breaking every rule of stagecraft, the untrained actors embrace their characters and the tropes of movie Westerns—good versus evil, civilization against the wilderness—and, in the process, change the course of their lives. Based on a popular, award-winning Croatian play,
Cowboys is part social drama, part farce, and all wacky, with a denouement that will have everyone cheering in the aisles.
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