Bigger Picture Projects present

Charolais

Written and performed by Noni Stapleton

Directed by Bairbre Ni Chaoimh

A darkly comic tale of homicidal jealousy and love rivalry…with a cow!

Charolais is an age old tale of female rivalry with a new twist: the other woman is cow, a literal one, a purebred Charolais heifer. Siobhan’s boyfriend is a farmer who devotes considerable attention to his prize heifer at the expense of his very pregnant girlfriend. Siobhan has developed a homicidal jealousy for this Charolais and is feeling equally murderous towards her snobbish soon-to-be mother in law.

A dark comedy of love and longing: rarely in Irish theatre are the challenges of farming life and the joy of sex expressed so frankly or with such charm.

Bewley’s ‘Little Gem Award’ – Tiger Dublin Fringe 2014

“Noni Stapleton’s hilarious take on rural life and love is a paradox: superficially crude, it’s full of wisdom and tenderness, and manages to throw in a fair sprinkling of compassion and forgiveness along the way”. Emer O’Kelly Sunday Independent