Horse Country - A Surreal Comedy
Written by CJ Hopkins
Directed by Mark Bell ('The Play that Goes Wrong')
★★★★★ “Two of the most brilliant idiots one has the pleasure of being forced to watch.” New York Herald
★★★★★ "A really substantial piece of theatre" The Scotsman
★★★★★ "Dazzling" Get Your Coats On
"This is great writing and super acting... a Fringe hidden gem" Fringe Review.com
Winner of the Best of the Fringe Firsts at the Edinburgh Fringe.
An absurdist black comedy.
Like Laurel and Hardy performing 'The Dumb Waiter', on acid, Bob and Sam, two clowns, shoot the breeze, waiting for… something. They talk and talk without saying anything. Their existence highlights the futility of free will in a system designed to imprison and challenges the notion that art and freedom of expression has any chance of saving us.
Presented by: Flying Bridge Theatre Company and Joanne Hartstone
Performed by Daniel Llewelyn-Williams and Michael Edwards.
Three things about Flying Bridge Theatre Company:
TRUTH
We want to hold a mirror up to life and expose truth and untruth and inequality.
PROVOCATION
Good theatre should be “about” something – should prompt a change of perspective, a new direction.
INSPIRATION
We want our work to inspire others to make great social art, to continue a conversation that we are a proud part of.
'Horse Country' is proudly co-presented by Joanne Hartstone.
Joanne Hartstone is a multi-award winning theatre-maker, producer and presenter from South Australia. She has a reputation of producing artistic work of integrity and quality, and is a major figure of the Fringe world.
Reviews & Fringefeed Reacts
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The writing is tight, entertaining and mesmerising. - Jim Judges, Fringe Review
Come for the slapstick. Stay for the verbal gymnastics. Leave with a free carrot - Get Your Coats On
This play shoots from the lip! - Kathleen Mansfield, North West End UK
Time must have passed, but I hadn’t noticed – the true test of good theatre. - David Cronin, The Clothesline
A sensationally satisfying dose of transfixing bafflegab. - Samela Harris., Barefoot Review