''Flaming Guns of the Purple Sage'' is a sadistic

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Jane Martin Jane Martin is the pen name of a playwright who has been active from 1981 to the present, whose real identity remains unknown. Martin's plays include ''Anton in Show Business'', ''Back Story'', ''Beauty'', ''Coup/Clucks'', '' Cementville'', ''Cr ...

Synopsis

Big 8, a

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competitor, is facing foreclosure on the

Wyoming Wyoming () is a U.S. state, state in the Mountain states, Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It is bordered by Montana to the north and northwest, South Dakota and Nebraska to the east, Idaho to the west, Utah to the south ...

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where she rehabilitates injured rodeo

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s. The arrival of a shocking woman named Shedevil and a one eyed

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named Black Dog leads to violence and horror in a satire on the cowboy mentality of pulp western writers like

Zane Grey Pearl Zane Grey (January 31, 1872 – October 23, 1939) was an American author and dentist. He is known for his popular adventure novels and stories associated with the Western genre in literature and the arts; he idealized the American frontie ...

References

External links

List of Jane Martin plays
Plays by Jane Martin Satirical plays Plays set in Wyoming 2001 plays {{2000s-play-stub