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When "Rambo - First Blood" was released in 1982 we met a young Vietnam vet played by Sylvester Stallone, who returns to the US after being tortured in a prison camp. Now the film is the basis for a new one-man show called "Rambo Solo". It's set in a tiny studio apartment, where the actor Zachary Oberzan re-enacts the film and the book it was based on scene by scene.

OBERZAN: I like stories about individuals alone fighting a larger force as an underdog.

REPORTER: Oberzan first saw the movie when he was around nine years old, and read the book dozens of times. He says "Rambo Solo" is a meditation on the act of storytelling itself.

OBERZAN: The various versions of a story, and what actually is indeed the original version of the story. Where do you start to argue about this is the real story, no that's the real story.

REPORTER: "Rambo Solo" is the brainchild of the Nature Theater of Oklahoma, an experimental theater group that's known for its non-traditional approaches to narrative. Pavel Liska is one of the co-directors of the show.

LISKA: This is our completely new version of this story, of this modern myth of a man coming home from war.

REPORTER: And he hopes that the drama of the experimental theater will match, if not mimic, the Hollywood blockbuster. "Rambo Solo" runs at Soho Rep through April 12th.