INTERNATIONAL artist Greg Wohead is bringing his autobiographical show to the Lyric Theatre in Bridport on Friday, November 7.

The Many Apologies of Pecos Bill will see the Texan writer and performer collaborate with musician Mat Martin to consider identity and a shifting sense of place.

A true story with a healthy amount of exaggeration, The Many Apologies of Pecos Bill explores the universal topic of home and leaving it.

This is the story of two Texans. One Texan falls in love with a cowgirl who rides on the back of a giant catfish. His name is Pecos Bill. He was raised by coyotes, used a rattlesnake as a lasso, and grew up to be the greatest cowboy of all time.

The other Texan once passed out from exhaustion on a three mile hike. His name is Greg. This is where Bill and Greg meet, merge and swap stories.

Using true storytelling accompanied by banjo and guitar music, Greg Wohead creates a compelling performance about being far away from home: about how identity can be connected to a place, and how that place (and identity) warps, stretches and grows over distance and time. As the lines between truth and exaggeration begin to blur, the banjo and guitar music - by turns gentle and exuberant - provides a pathway through the confusion; sometimes in the background painting a picture of the desert landscape, other times punctuating the story with old-time songs sung by Greg and Mat.

Greg said: “For me, this is a very personal show. It’s about the idea of home and being far away from a place to which your identity is linked. I started making the show when I had spent enough time away from home to forget a lot of things about it and to make up a lot of things about it. I loved that, so I made a show that’s basically a tall tale about real life.”

The Many Apologies of Pecos Bill is at the Lyric Theatre, Bridport, at 7.30pm on Friday, November 7.