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UPDATE (28/1/03)
The shows on Tuesday, Friday & Saturday night have all now sold out - contact Box Office for returns information
Horse Country is an absurd, hysterical provocative take on late 20th century American culture, from one of New York’s leading new writers... What starts as an absurdist love affair with words that begins as banter between two seasoned comics quickly becomes a relentless, ravenous examination of modern behaviour, values and beliefs.
As Sam and Bob slump at a table littered with the detritus of consumerism, the discussion ranges from card games to fishing trips to talking seal acts, and yet everything this hilarious yet ominous duo touch on takes on a deeper and more urgent meaning as the play seeps beyond the edge of the stage. Horse Country won a clutch of awards at the 2002 Fringe including a Herald Angel, The Stage Best Actor and The Scotsman’s First of the Firsts.
Post Show Discussion
Wed 29 January
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Equipped as it is with the men in black machine gun exchange of Quentin Tarantino by way of Beckett, C J Hopkins’s deceptively small but perfectly formed duologue is near-perfect 21st-century pop cultural off-the-record exchange (THE HERALD)
It becomes clear that we’re in the presence of a really substantial work here: sharp, brilliant, intense, fast-moving, made for the moment we live in. There’s no faulting Clancy’s superb direction; or the blistering, brilliantly-observed performances given by Calvitto and Schneider, in one of the finest shows of the year (THE SCOTSMAN)
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