{"id":382181,"date":"2025-10-20T07:40:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T11:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dctheaterarts.org\/?p=382181"},"modified":"2025-10-20T10:12:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T14:12:10","slug":"a-buckaroo-poetry-slam-under-a-cowboy-moon-at-vienna-theatre-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dctheaterarts.org\/2025\/10\/20\/a-buckaroo-poetry-slam-under-a-cowboy-moon-at-vienna-theatre-company\/","title":{"rendered":"A buckaroo poetry slam &#8216;Under a Cowboy Moon&#8217; at Vienna Theatre Company"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The centerpiece of <strong>Carl L. Williams<\/strong>\u2019 <em>Under a Cowboy Moon<\/em>, now playing at the Vienna Theatre Company (VCT), is a cowboy poetry competition, a kind of poetry slam taking place in a small bar in a dried-up, dying, West Texas town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like perhaps many people who have lived primarily in urban, Eastern environments, I had no idea what cowboy poetry sounded like. Here\u2019s an example, generated by ChatGPT:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Out where the sage and silence meet,<br>The prairie winds don\u2019t miss a beat.<br>My boots are worn, my hat sits low,<br>Chasing the sun where wild herds go.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The campfire flickers, stars appear,<br>Coyotes singing where none can hear.<br>A lonesome tune, a life untamed,<br>A cowboy\u2019s heart can\u2019t be contained.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In depopulated Spitwhistle, Texas, the Saddle Horn Bar can attract only a handful of contestants. There\u2019s the young Henry Burke (<strong>Jaye Frazier<\/strong>), a poetry rookie competing for the first time. Frazier\u2019s Burke is appropriately insecure and callow. In counterpoint, Williams gives us Boone Hawkins (<strong>Raymond G. Gagliardi<\/strong>), a longtime veteran of the cowboy poetry world, who shows genuine kindness to Henry. I\u2019d have liked Boone\u2019s hair and makeup to be more suggestive of the older <strong>Willie Nelson<\/strong>, better to portray the character\u2019s near-the-end-of-the-trail situation in life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" src=\"https:\/\/dctheaterarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Under-a-Cowboy-Moon-VTC-1600x1200-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-382182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dctheaterarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Under-a-Cowboy-Moon-VTC-1600x1200-1.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/dctheaterarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Under-a-Cowboy-Moon-VTC-1600x1200-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dctheaterarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Under-a-Cowboy-Moon-VTC-1600x1200-1-460x345.jpg 460w, https:\/\/dctheaterarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Under-a-Cowboy-Moon-VTC-1600x1200-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dctheaterarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Under-a-Cowboy-Moon-VTC-1600x1200-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/dctheaterarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Under-a-Cowboy-Moon-VTC-1600x1200-1-696x522.jpg 696w, https:\/\/dctheaterarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Under-a-Cowboy-Moon-VTC-1600x1200-1-265x198.jpg 265w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Jon Roberts (as Simon Dawes), Scott Stofko (Rafe Cainfield), Kim Paul (Terri Blair), Jaye Fraizer (Henry Burke), and Janice Zucker (Rebecca Proctor) in \u2018Under a Cowboy Moon.\u2019 Photo by Shalev Weinstein.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Then there\u2019s Rafe Cainfield (<strong>Scott Stofkost<\/strong>), all ego and loudness, with nary a nuance in sight. He\u2019s accompanied by his just-short-of-bimbo girlfriend, Terri Blair (<strong>Kim Paul<\/strong>), who by show\u2019s end begins to get a clue about her boyfriend\u2019s character.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The final contestant is Michael Tibbets (<strong>Chris Dockins<\/strong>), a UT Austin English professor who, under a pseudonym, visits the contest to analyze cowboy poetry. Excessively erudite and egregiously pretentious, Michael is a portrait of everything people love to hate about academia. Dockins does get one of the best comic bits of the evening, as Michael delivers a cowboy poetry adaptation of a portion of <strong>T.S. Eliot<\/strong>\u2019s <em>The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock<\/em>, with a hilarious reference to western novel writer Louis L\u2019Amour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While Michael\u2019s English Department take on life may not cut much ice with the bar patrons, it does gain the attention of Rebecca Proctor (<strong>Janice Zuker<\/strong>), a PBS producer there to record the contest and interview the locals for a documentary. She hangs on Michael\u2019s every word, and romantic attraction blooms. In her way, Rebecca is as much a satire on PBS documentarians as Michael is of humanities professors. Williams wrote the play in 2007; the notion of a PBS reporter showing up at a small town gathering today, let alone with a humanities grant in hand, has a considerably more ironic edge.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1600\" src=\"https:\/\/dctheaterarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Under-a-Cowboy-Moon-VTC-1200x1600-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-382183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dctheaterarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Under-a-Cowboy-Moon-VTC-1200x1600-1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/dctheaterarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Under-a-Cowboy-Moon-VTC-1200x1600-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/dctheaterarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Under-a-Cowboy-Moon-VTC-1200x1600-1-345x460.jpg 345w, https:\/\/dctheaterarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Under-a-Cowboy-Moon-VTC-1200x1600-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dctheaterarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Under-a-Cowboy-Moon-VTC-1200x1600-1-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/dctheaterarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Under-a-Cowboy-Moon-VTC-1200x1600-1-696x928.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">TOP: Kim Paul (Terri Blair) and Scott Stofko (Rafe Cainfield); ABOVE: Ray Gagliardi (Boone Hawkins) and Janice Zucker (Rebecca Proctor), (background:) Scott Stofko (Rafe Cainfield) and Kim Paul (Terri Blair),  in \u2018Under a Cowboy Moon.\u2019 Photos by Shalev Weinstein.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Jon Roberts<\/strong> makes an excellent impression as Simon Dawes, Rebecca\u2019s cameraman, whose manner is more laconic than that of any of the cowboys, making occasional wry, often delightful, comments on the goings-on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bar owner, P.A. Carswell (<strong>Liz LeBoo<\/strong>), is a pillar of what remains of the community. LeBoo gives a grounded portrayal of someone whose dreams of the future have a low horizon: to go to Texarkana and work with her sister in a diner. Her life is in contrast to that of Jill Milligan (<strong>Shelby Kaplan<\/strong>), who is finishing up a business degree at UT, and who therefore has a chance of escaping small town topor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>P.A.\u2019s former boyfriend, Deuce Whatley (<strong>Charlie Boone<\/strong>), a regular at the bar, still hopes to rekindle their romance. While <em>Under a Cowboy Moon<\/em> is not a romcom, Deuce and P.A. through most of the play have some of the bickering banter interaction typical of many romcom characters. They are the two characters who are most credible as people who have long lived in a place like Spitwhistle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Director <strong>Jessie Roberts<\/strong> keeps the pace consistent and the movement clear. In this she is well aided by lighting designer <strong>Nicholas Boone<\/strong>, whose tight area lighting provides the equivalent of close-ups to, for example, two characters talking at a table while the other characters are in low light. Kudos to sound designer <strong>Myer Kim<\/strong> for selecting pre-show and intermission country music that is credible for the time and setting, rather than samples of the generic, and synthetic, Nashville sound. <strong>Carol Pappas<\/strong>\u2019 costumes suit the characters well; one particularly nice example is Rafe\u2019s outfit for the recital of his poem, every bit as showy as Rafe\u2019s personality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Its humor and local color notwithstanding, <em>Under a Cowboy Moon<\/em> is a rather melancholy play, portraying the long, slow decline of a way of life and a community. In this, it called to my mind the brilliantly written <em>A Texas Trilogy <\/em>by <strong>Preston Jones<\/strong>. These three 1970s plays take place in the West Texas town of Bradleyville, realized in far greater depth than Williams\u2019 Spitwhistle. Theater groups would do well to revive any or all of Jones\u2019 three plays, which provide roles that good actors would crave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Running Time: One hour and 45 minutes, including one intermission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Under a Cowboy Moon <\/em><\/strong>plays through November 2, 2025, presented by&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.viennatheatrecompany.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Vienna Theatre Company&nbsp;<\/a>performing at Vienna Community Center, 120 Cherry St SE, Vienna, VA. Tickets, priced at $16, are available&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.viennatheatrecompany.org\/tickets.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>online<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;or in person at the Vienna Community Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Note: The air conditioning (not under VCT\u2019s control) can make conditions in the theater uncomfortably cold. It would be prudent to prepare accordingly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The quirky contest kicks off in a small bar in a dried-up West Texas town, and PBS is on the scene.   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