Director, theatre maker, performer http://www.lucywray.co.uk/atom/director-1/cow 2023-11-23T16:49:27+00:00 Folissimo Feed Generator https://static.folissimo.com/uploads/images/user296/1501270611_af7f4.jpg Photo credit MACAW 2017 Dates 25th June Burton Taylor Studio, Oxford (part of Offbeat Festival) 26 27th July The Boat Shed, Exeter 3-27th August Iron Belly, Underbelly Cowgate, Edinburgh Fringe 12.10 (1.10) NOT 16th Cast: Jessica Barker-Wren Producer: Hannah Tookey Associate Producer/Stage Manager: Henry Harrod Lighting Designer: Joe Price ‘Mum's gone, that's established. Cancer. Two years ago. Brush it under the rug. And Dad's been quietly losing it since.' Beth wants to borrow a tractor, but she won't say why. In a political climate where big cities and the regions seem worlds apart, COW looks at individuals who straddle the gulf. Set in rural Devon, Beth is reaching out to a community that is being steadily dismantled. A disquieting, tragicomic tale with songs, COW is about a girl, a cow and the ways people ask for help. For information Tour booking please email: macawpresents@gmail.com "a powerful new voice in the UK theatre scene" "Potent in the themes it focuses on, intimate in its focus, it is equal parts funny and heartbreaking" "very much of its moment, reflecting the decline of farming since the mid-90s (ravaged by foot-and-mouth and buried by globalisation), the struggles of millennials in an uncaring world, and the prospect of caring for an aging population" Daily Info, Oxford "the piece as a whole is beautiful. From an unrepresented part of society telling an unrelenting, honest story, Cow is a treat." A Younger Theatre "There is strength in the writing and power in the story being told, of a changing way of life, of grief and the things it does to people." The Stage "It is hard not to like a show featuring a large red cow" British Theatre