Armed and Dangerous

2006

Inspired by films that depict the American Wild West and in particular the ones that portray the life of ‘Billy The Kid’, the company, together with a group of boys that have been participating on a week residency, explore the destructive consequences of anti-social behaviour in a poetic and exhilarating physical performance.

“William McCarty, wanted by the law for stealing clothes, cattle rustling, bank robbery and 6 counts of Murder including the death of his partner Jack “Sombreros” McSween, escaped capture yesterday after Marshall Frank Evans and his deputies, placed the farm where he was hiding out, under siege. He was last seen heading west towards the Fort Sumner area he is considered armed and very dangerous.”

Director/ PerformerDavid Mckenna

Dancers Mark Anderson

  Mark Worth

  20 boys from a week residency

Music A mixture that includes Calexico, Anthony Kimber-McTiffen,

  Ry Cooder and Gotan Project.

Writer Simon Piasecki-Maxsted