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Bobby & Amy
Full-Length Play, Drama / 1w, 1m
A new dark comedy about foot-and-mouth disease by Fringe First award winner Emily Jenkins.
It's the late 90s: Take That, Tamagotchis and Pog swaps. When Bobby and Amy meet, hundreds of cows dot across the fields and the sun always shines.
But when the cows begin to burn, Bobby and Amy’s sleepy Cotswold town faces a catastrophe that will change their home forever.
Bobby & Amy explores friendship and what happens when our way of life is threatened by those who don’t understand it.
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Cast Size
1w, 1m -
Duration
60 minutes (1 hour) -
Target Audience
Appropriate for All Audiences
Accolades
- Winner! 2019 Fringe First Award
Details
Summary
It’s the end of the 90s: Take That, Tamagotchis and Pog swaps. When Bobby and Amy meet, hundreds of cows dot across the fields and the sun always shines.
But when the cows begin to burn, Bobby and Amy’s sleepy Cotswold town faces a catastrophe that will change their home forever.
Bobby & Amy explores friendship, heartache, and what happens when our way of life is threatened by those who don’t understand it.
A dark comedy about foot-and-mouth disease by Fringe First winner Emily Jenkins.
History
- Time Period Contemporary, New Millennium/21st Century
- Features Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes
- Duration 60 minutes (1 hour)
Media
“Jenkins’s play is much more than just a 1990s nostalgia trip. It’s a moving story of resilience, of changing landscapes, national trauma and, above all, friendship.” – The Stage
“At the heart of the play… is a profound sense of how rapidly England’s landscape has changed in the last quarter-century, and how powerless many ordinary people have felt in the face of those changes” – The Scotsman
“This show is one of the best at the Festival” – The Times
"Gripping" - The Guardian
"This powerful new play asks what happens when our way of life is threatened by those who don’t understand it." - The Edinburgh Reporter
"Bobby & Amy is a remarkable piece of writing and a remarkable production. Emily Jenkins evokes people, cultures, scenes, places, generations, atmospheres, characters with pithy poignancy, a sprinkling of well-chosen words summoning up a succession of vivid images. A single poetic phrase conjures a whole landscape; an acutely observed, sparely described detail creates a perfect vignette of a social gathering; the brutally colourful language of insult can strike with a jolt as hard as a bully’s fist." - Daily Info
Licensing & Materials
- Minimum Fee: £55 per performance plus VAT when applicable.
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