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Do Horses Have Teeth, Sir?

Fri 20 Dec 24
Date:
20 to 22 December - 7:30pm & 1:30pm

Tickets:
Standard: £15
Concessions: £12 The Cockpit, Gateforth Street NW8 8EH ohn Hegley, the star of radio, T.V. and school assemblies, returns with a celebratory festive jamboree chock-full of daft and deft wordplay, sing-along numbers and against all advice, a selection of 'drawings'. Quite a lot of them horses. This new show contains a spattering of favourites, alongside new work. As well as the titular horses, and a selection from the creature back catalogue, there are previously undisclosed diary entries - some from poetry workshops, and one from a visit to a novelty fancy dress disco, attired as a French baroque composer and music theorist. Expect myths, moths, myrrh, but no mathematics. Audio and visual stimulation. Seasonal merriment. Entertainment. And thought provocation. Devised for adults but not unsuitable for the odd nine-year-old. 4* - 'the best show I’ve seen this year' — Entertainment-Now 4* - 'a master of his craft... a warm and welcoming show' — One4Review 'a strong theme of horses throughout' — Dean of Dentistry, Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh John Hegley is a poet, comedian, lumpy draughtsman and committed Luton Town Football Club supporter. He is the author of 14 books and performs around the country in arts centres, theatres, comedy clubs, galleries and museums, literary and music festivals, hospitals, prisons, schools and libraries. With his band The Popticians he appeared on BBC Radio 1’s Peel Sessions, and has been poet in residence for BBC Online. Currently he is working on a story about a travelling Frenchman, to be performed with a brass octet. 'Just because he is one of the funniest men alive, do not underestimate his dedicated genius’ — Adrian Mitchell, New Statesman... READ MORE>

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