The Comedy of the Tragic Goats

Sypnosis

"The play was tight, well-timed and consistent...But while the play's skeleton possessed economy and grace, in performance these qualities were disguised under layers of convulsing meat...Yet there was a depth to the piece – the kind of depth folktales have: echoing and unilluminated...It shocks, disturbs and amuses, never letting up till the very end." The Flying Inkpot

The Goat Head was an artist. His most famous work, a magnificent blueprint of a utopian city.

One day as the Goat Head and his expectant wife appear to address the public, a gunshot is fired and the dictator is assassinated. Dissidents stage coup and gain control of the country. A massive hunt is launched for all goats.

All goats are wanted.

All goats are hunted.

After a time of purging, the dust finally settles.

Several years later two prisoners,

Munsee and Boo wait behind bars.

Then word comes. The most wanted Goat has surfaced. The Goat from the expectant belly. The feared successor. The hunt resumes. The Goat could be anyone, teacher astronaut, deep-sea diver, doctor. The Goat could be anything - fat, man, hairy, woman.

When a blueprint resembling the Goat Head’s Utopia is found in their prison cell, all eyes turn. Could one of them be the Goat? Munsee, a university student imprisoned for participating in a demonstration or Boo a construction worker for assaulting his supervisor. The interrogation begins.

Munsee or Boo? Which clown is the culprit?

The Comedy of the Tragic Goats is a tale of two clowns who dance and play to fend disaster away.