She Rode Horses Like the Stock Exchange

She Rode Horses Like the Stock Exchange

by Amelia Roper

Directed by Nell Ranney

Presented in association with bAKEHOUSE Theatre Company
20 Oct - 11 Nov
Kings Cross Theatre 

This is our blanket! Sit on it if you like and enjoy the park, it’s a lovely park.I’ve seen two dogs since you’ve been arguing about happiness.

In a nice park, in a nice city, two nice couples try very, very hard to be nice to each other while the sound of ice cream trucks (wait, no) ambulances (nope!) the Global Financial Crisis screams into town.

She Rode Horses Like the Stock Exchange is an absurdly funny and terrifying ride through a downsized, foreclosed nation. This is a fresh new play about gender expectations, possession and loneliness, money and ego. Don’t worry about tomorrow. Spend all your money on ice cream. IT’S A BEAUTIFUL DAY.

“cutting wit and dramatic originality” San Francisco Chronicle

“..what’s sly about Roper’s script is the way she conveys a sense of absurdism- on the spectrum from Beckett to Will Eno- and high comedy for a situation that turns out not to be absurd or all that funny. Except it is.” Theater Dogs

The Company

Playwright: Amelia Roper
Director: Nell Ranney
Set & Costume Designer: Isabel Hudson
Lighting Designer: Christopher Page
Composer & Sound Designer: Ben Pierpoint
Producer: Amy Morcom
Assistant Producer: Rebecca Blake
Cast: Nikki Britton, Tom Mesker, Matilda Ridgway, Dorje Swallow