HORSES
A late-capitalist battle royale of endurance.
HORSES follows the lives of a disparate group of contestants who intertwine across an inhumanely gruelling, Depression-era dance marathon.
This surreal yet hyper-real social satire slyly and sincerely evokes the 1930s Great Depression to consider the pandemic-ravaged 2020s.
HORSES plunges audiences inside the macabre cabaret of a historically real but morally unreal ‘reality’ competition.
Set in Sydney in 1932: A tumultuous, state-shaking year for New South Wales, this ‘murder on the dancefloor’ drama captures endless days of lunacy, laughter, struggle and heartbreak.
Written by Ian Sinclair
Directed by Tait de Lorenzo
Belvoir 25A, 2022
CAST
Justin Amankwah
Tom Dawson
Caitlin Doyle-Markwick
Nathaniel Langworthy
Charlotte Otton
Bronte Sparrow
Supported by The Australia Council, Create NSW and The Inner West Council
Images by Robert Catto
