Little Green Pig: Horses

What do Patti Smith, Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave, PJ Harvey, and Kate Bush have in common? “They’re uncompromising people,” says longtime performer, director, and deviser Dana Marks. “They don’t give a shit, and even if they do, they keep making their work, no matter what.” The central character in Marks’s new work combines traits from all five singers as a post-punk songwriter embarking on a world tour. In this pseudo-documentary, interviews with journalists on her history and process are leavened with original music and strategic covers of the songs that have most influenced her. Marks says Horses is about “how you stay the course through anything: poverty, the death of friends and family, controversy, and social sea change.” The show is circulating through the Triangle this week—Thursday at Slim’s in Raleigh, Friday at King Street Bar in Hillsborough, and Saturday at Gibson Girl Vintage in Durham—before closing with a three-night run at the Pinhook next week. William Dawson leads the band. —Byron Woods