When handsome bandit Jack Cannon swaggers into a sleepy town in the Wild West, their explosive arrival inspires a gender revolution, and starts a fire under the petticoat of every one of the town’s repressed inhabitants.

A rollicking queer Western like nothing you've seen before.

In a sleepy town in the Wild West, the women drift through their days like tumbleweed. Their husbands, swept up in the goldrush, have been missing for almost a year and show no sign of returning. In fact, the town is almost cut off from outsiders entirely, with only one drunken sheriff for protection.

That is until handsome bandit Jack Cannon swaggers up to the town’s saloon, looking for a place to hide from the bounty hunters on his tail. Armed with a wink, and with a gun by their side for good measure, Jack’s explosive arrival inspires a gender revolution, and starts a fire under the petticoat of every one of the town’s repressed inhabitants...

Cowbois by Charlie Josephine played in Stratford-upon-Avon's Swan Theatre from 14 October to 18 November 2023, before transferring to the Royal Court Theatre, London from 11 January to 10 February 2024. 

This ‘joyous queer cowboy romp’ (West End Best Friend) was co-directed by Charlie Josephine and Sean Holmes.

CAST & CREATIVES

CAST

Bridgette Amofah - Mary
Lee Braithwaite - Lucy/Lou
Georgia Bruce - Off-stage cover
Shaun Dingwall - Frank/Tommy
Michael Elcock - George
Colm Gormley - John
Vinnie Heaven - Jack
Paul Hunter - Sheriff Roger Jones
Lucy McCormick - Jayne
Sophie Melville - Miss Lillian
Julian Moore-Cook - James
Emma Pallant - Sally Ann
LJ Parkinson - Charley Parkhurst

CREATIVES

Charlie Josephine - Writer & Co-Director
Sean Holmes - Co-Director
Grace Smart - Designer
Simeon Miller - Lighting
Jim Fortune - Music
Mwen - Sound & Soundscape
Jennifer Jackson - Movement
Bethan Clark - Fights and Intimacy
Rebecca Latham - Dramaturg
Gemma Storr - Music Director
Gary Horner - Voice & Text
Wabriya King - Dramatherapist
Prime Isaac - Assistant Director
Charlie Metcalf - Children's Casting

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