Cowboy Mouth (play)

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This article is about the 1971 play by Sam Shepard and Patti Smith. For the New Orleans rock band, see Cowboy Mouth.
Cowboy Mouth
Written by Sam Shepard
Patti Smith
Characters Slim (Sam Shepard),
Cavale (Patti Smith),
Lobster Man (Robert Glaudini)
Date of premiere April 29, 1971
Original language English
Setting The American Place Theatre, New York City
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Cowboy Mouth is a 1971 play, written and performed by Sam Shepard and Patti Smith, and directed by Robert Glaudini.[1]

The Play is about Cavale and Slim, two absolute messes living in sin together. Unable to move, yet at complete unrest, Slim swings from blaming Cavale for the disaster that is his life to begging her to tell him stories about French poets. Cavale is a former mental patient of some kind. She remembers electric shocks and having to wear metal plates around her club foot when she was younger. She also muses about playing the ugly duckling as a child, being forced into the role without even the satisfaction of emerging as a beautiful swan at the end. The two call on the Lobster Man for sustenance and entertainment. It's a play full of dichotomies, and easy swings from one extreme mindset to another. It sheds light on how the American Dream does little more for the individual besides spoil his happiness.

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  1. ^ 29 April 1971. Retrieved on 2008-03-19.

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