Must

See it if you like an interesting staging of someone's life. The acting except for role of sheriff was good. Some moving moments with parents.

Don't see it if you want a fully developed story about Billy's life. Program says 90 minutes but show under an hour.

Also I liked the staging and the idea of going back and forth in Billy's life with his parents, girlfriend and sheriff was good. It needs to be more fully developed. The moments between Billy and each of his parents were very moving but the sheriff role needed a better actor and better dialogue.... Read more Read less

See it if like a well-acted play, short in duration. Or a historical piece with only a vague connection to actual events. It is an introspective piece

Don't see it if you need action. This is an introspective piece and not meant to be taken on any realistic plane.

Also If you wanted a drinking game, where you would end up HAMMERED at the end, take a shot every time the word "horizon" is mentioned during Charles Cissel's MUST.
To be fair, it's not like the play was awful. The acting was pretty good with Brendan Dooling (Billy the Kid) and John Clarence Stewart (Pat Garrett) shining. The lovely Meredith Antoian (Louisa) brings the softer emotions out of the outlaw, and parents (Sally Ann Triplett and Mark Elliot Wilson) the specters that haunt Billy on his last night of life. Simplicity is the key, with an elegant western set and spare staging. Billed at 90 minutes, I think we barely got over 60. Intended to explore the spiritual side of the Kid, adherence to established fact are also scarce. He is presented as a tortured soul, a victim of circumstances pursued by friend turned executioner, Pat Garrett. I would have changed the characters to complete fictions, thus losing the stigma of inaccuracy and opening potential "horizons" in storytelling.... Read more Read less

See it if You want to know how generous Bruce Willis is to put his money in a really bad show. Good set and good lighting

Don't see it if You want something good and or entertaining.

See it if you have time to kill ...& willing to sit on a slow play that can put you to sleep - as the dialogues & sunset stage lights set that mood.

Don't see it if you actually want to enjoy and learn more about Billy in an interesting way. The staging, lighting, costume and cast were promising though.

See it if Like plays without a purpose.

Don't see it if Don't like plays without a purpose .

See it if the writer is your friend or husband.

Don't see it if you have something better to do with two hours.

See it if You're looking to see something new, avant garde, and with a fresh take on a well known subject.

Don't see it if You want something more conventional; the play is a little confusing.

See it if you want to see a short play that seems too long.

Don't see it if you want to see good actors working with a poor script.

Also Repetitious, redundant, superfluous...
I am surprised that Bruce Willis endorsed this play.... Read more Read less

See it if you are really into Billy the Kid.

Don't see it if you like high energy shows.

See it if Fan of Billy the Kid.

Don't see it if Your not open minded to someone else's thoughts and demons.

See it if you like the topic of Billy the Kid and want to see a story showing different aspects of this historic time.

Don't see it if you prefer modern or linear stories.

See it if you like great acting.

Don't see it if you cannot follow different story lines at the same time.

Also story is clever.

See it if you have to see every play ever written about Billy the Kid, curious about how the church will have an easy time using this set for service

Don't see it if you don't like repetitive dialogue with little actual & often contradictory content, want to learn about the outlaw, need action & character

Also Despite the play's nebulousness, it does boast a nice piece of eye candy in the role of Billy the Kid, who is on stage the entire time... Read more Read less

See it if You know someone associated w/the production. You're fascinated by Billy the Kid & want to see everything about him.

Don't see it if You want any illumination of Billy. You want life-lile characters that go beyond cliche. You value quality playwriting.

See it if Plodding fantasy of Billy the Kid with the ghosts of his parents and a made-up friendship with Sheriff Pat Garrett. Good acting, though.

Don't see it if First preview -- the actors expertly delivered some good dialogue that -- strung together -- did not make a play.

See it if you are a fan of Billy the kid or enjoy philosophical and confusing explorations of life's relationships.

Don't see it if you are not particularly interested in Billy the kid or would prefer an engaging examination of life.

See it if you want to see a show about what someone could have thought.

Don't see it if you want interactions that don't feel like 2 monologues. Maybe that was the point, but the "conversations" were overlong for me.

See it if You're if you can enjoy wandering plays. I enjoyed the actors and the set.

Don't see it if If you like plays that tell a story with a clear plot.

See it if you are interested in Billy the Kid and the memory of the people in his life and the effect they had on him.

Don't see it if you don't like memory plays with actual living characters that are distorted or drawn from the author's imagination.

See it if You want to see a new play with the substance of a very good play. It had all the elements I hoped for when I read the description.

Don't see it if Poor stage instructions by the author and poor direction make the production difficult to enjoy. Dooling is less than than engaging

Also The play has very good potential. The author has combined a "Christmas Carol" and a devolving Bob Cratchit (Garrett) with a straight from the Bible crucifixion story of Judas (Garrett) and Billy (Jesus). The playwright's stage instruction would best be ignored in the future and the director has done a very poor job of allowing his characters to interact. Brendan Dooling isn't up to the task of playing Billy.

I imagine that I would have given this an 85 in a reading or a workshop, but the production was severely lacking.... Read more Read less

See it if you want one hour to feel like three. Perhaps I just didn't get it, but Billy the Kid philosophizing with ghosts just didn't work for me.

Don't see it if You want a play with an understandable plot. I got where it ended up, but it took a very convoluted and incomprehensible path to get there.

See it if You would like to see a "Waiting for Godot" without the laughs. Only the great acting barely made this almost tolerable.

Don't see it if You want to have any respect for Bruce Willis or bartenders

See it if you'd enjoy seeing some good young actors perform on an interesting set.

Don't see it if you know anything at all about the life of Billy the Kid; dislike "talky" plays; like realistic dialogue; like some semblance of a plot.

Also If you see this, do not think this is an accurate story of Billy the Kid's life. There is one incident in the play which is based on his life--though I'm not sure you can understand what happened if you don't already know the story--and another that is more loosely based on it, but IMO this goes far beyond what is permissible in fictionalizing the life of a real historical person.Much of The Kid's life is shrouded in mystery, but a lot of this version is invented out of whole cloth--especially the incestuous affair with his sister--at least I THINK the script said she was his sister.(Billy had a brother, but no sister and I --and Wikipedia and biography.com --know nothing about a romance or any attempt by Billy to become a farmer.) But even as pure fiction, the script was very, very weak. The dialogue just isn't how any of the characters would have talked and that's especially true of Billy.... Read more Read less

See it if you Must! From the title to the end the show was just slow and boring. Some actors were good, but their lines were just bad. Don't see it!

Don't see it if you have respect for Bruce Willis. He must of lost of bet or was drunk when he read the script. This was not a good show.

Also I hate giving bad reviews but this show really has nothing it can redeem itself from, the script would need to be totally re-written. The Set was good and staging was fine. Lighting was excellent, but the play itself was horrible. From the opening scene, to the next after next, show just got worse and worse. The final scene may have been the only normal dialogue in the show. The show uses a sound machine, but it was more like a sleep machine. I looked at everyone in the audience falling asleep, just hoping the show would end. The actors were good, but you can't really get to see them perform with a horrible script. The director and the playwright maybe the only ones that can truly interpret this show, and that what makes it bad. A show needs to be for more than 2 people. I was excited to see a western play about Billy the Kid. This was all someones interpretation, and it just failed.... Read more Read less

See it if The show was a cute concept, but falls short of being entertaining. Show about 1 hour.

Don't see it if If you like a show that is easy to follow.