This baggily playful, queer subversion of Wild West tropes is a delight up until the interval. After that, it collapses into an aimless, interminable mess. It’s written by Charlie Josephine, who controversially but deliciously imagined Joan of Arc as non-binary in I, Joan at Shakespeare’s Globe in 2022.
At first, Cowbois mirrors that play’s impish humanity. In a western town where almost all the men are absent, prospecting for gold and presumed dead, the women have already transcended traditional roles.
