Matilda Ridgway Stars in Australian Premiere at KXT in October and November

Kings Cross Theatre continues their run of astounding productions in 2017 with the Australian premiere of Amelia Roper's biting comedy, SHE RODE HORSES LIKE THE STOCK EXCHANGE which will gallop into KXT from October 20th. Directed by former Belvoir Associate Artist, Nell Ranney, this sublime production is going to hit Sydneysiders like a stampede.

Set in a Connecticut park in 2007, just on the edge of the Global Financial Crisis that saw millions of people made penniless, jobless and homeless, She Rode Horses Like the Stock Exchange interplays the lives of 2 couples as they engage in an absurdly funny and terrifying ride through a crisis they didn't even know was possible.

US-based, Australian playwright, Amelia Roper's absurdly funny She Rode Horses Like the Stock Exchange is just what theatrical dreams are made of - it is rich in language, timelessly poignant and unnervingly funny via a dry, smart humour - it is Tina Fey meets Samuel Beckett! Roper's incredible script poses insightful questions about money, materialism and power through a tender gauze of humanity; it challenges cultural expectations and the simultaneous resentments towards them.

Of her script, Roper says;

"The play is about humans with human needs and feelings, and what it means to be an imperfect human who likes dogs and ice cream when you are also an adult and responsible for a bank, and collectively, an entire economy".

She Rode Horses Like the Stock Exchange has enjoyed productions all around the world, from Russia, to London, to numerous theatres in the USA and now to Sydney, in the grips of its own housing crisis where the Great Australian Dream of homeownership is fast fading, this play is finding audiences everywhere who connect to it in deep and meaningful ways. She Rode Horses Like the Stock Exchange is an achingly funny show that exposes what happens when the cushion of comfort is ripped out from underneath us.

Together with an impeccable cast, including 3-time Sydney Award nominee and winner, Matilda Ridgway, director Nell Ranney brings to life this nuanced, absurd, brilliant piece of theatre from a writer that is not only ahead of her time but also one who will help to shape our world-view well into the future.

For more information visit www.kingsxtheatre.com/she-rode-horses.

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