Rodeo Clown

The first mistake a novice rider makes is to think they can be one with the bull. Oh, you’re swerving to the right, I’ll come with you, oh you’re pigrooting, I can do that, oh you’re going gang a lang gang a lang forward back in a crazy front hooves, back hooves, all hooves in the air at once motion. Why the fuck are you doing that?

Made by Nicci Wilks- performer, Susie Dee- Director, and co-written by Angus Cerini, Patricia Cornelius, Wayne Macauley, and Melissa Reeves. Rodeo Clown examines gender, class, raw and cruel humour in the rodeo world in regional Australia. The show is a physical, comic work that pays respect to the danger, the bravery, the life and death moments that play out in this wild arena.

Nicci Wilks performing Rodeo Clown.

PRODUCTIONS:

Hothouse Theatre 2024

Darwin Festival 2025