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WRITTEN BY CJ HOPKINS, DIRECTED BY MATT B. WELLS

It’s Sam-Shepard-meets-Sam-Beckett in Horse Country - a multiple award-winning absurdist love affair with words. The play begins with banter between two seasoned comedy pros, Bob and Sam, but quickly becomes a relentless, ravenous examination of our behavior, values, and beliefs in “post-everything” America.  As the main characters slump at a table littered with the detritus of consumerism, their conversation ranges from card games to fishing trips to talking seal acts.

Yet everything this hilarious, yet ominous, duo touches on takes a deeper and more urgent meaning as the play seeps beyond the edge of the stage. Destined to become a classic of 21st-century theater, Horse Country is complex and provocative; a snapshot of a time when global capitalism emerges as the single most powerful force on the planet, and its people are just waking up to a supremely hollow victory.

Starring:  

DAN MAHONEY

BRIAN WILLIAMS

WORKING STAGE THEATRE

1516 North Gardner Street

West Hollywood, CA 90046

CJ Hopkins (Playwright) was born in

Miami, Florida. Mr. Hopkins' work is

typified by existential explorations of

American culture, consumerism,

capitalism, authority, and the human

condition. His work is often darkly

comedic, leaving the audience with

more questions than answers. His most well-known work is Horse

Country; other plays he has written include screwmachine/eyecandy, psychohaiku, Texas Radio, How To Entertain the Rich, The Installation, and The Position. In 2004, Mr. Hopkins moved from Brooklyn, New York to Berlin,

Germany.