14 October = 18 November

A rollicking queer Western like nothing you’ve seen before.

In a sleepy town in the Wild West, the women drift through their days like tumbleweed. Their husbands, swept up in the goldrush, have been missing for almost a year and show no sign of returning. In fact, the town is almost cut off from outsiders entirely, with only one drunken sheriff for protection.

That is until handsome bandit Jack Cannon swaggers up to the town’s saloon, looking for a place to hide from the bounty hunters on his tail.

Armed with a wink, and with a gun by their side for good measure, Jack’s explosive arrival inspires a gender revolution, and starts a fire under the petticoat of every one of the town’s repressed inhabitants. 

Grab your stetson and spurs and join us in the Swan Theatre for Cowbois, a new play written by Charlie Josephine and co-directed by Charlie Josephine and Sean Holmes.

For more information about themes and contents of this play, please see our content advisory page.

Cowbois explores themes of gender expression. For more information or support on this subject, we recommend Gendered Intelligence, a registered charity that works to increase understandings of gender diversity and improve the lives of trans people.For more information about themes and contents of this play, please see our content advisory page.

You can contact our Box Office team on 01789 331111, from midday to 6pm (UK time) Monday to Friday, excluding Bank Holidays. You can also email the Box Office at tickets@rsc.org.uk Royal Shakespeare Company


Royal Shakespeare Theatre
Waterside
Stratford-upon-Avon
Warwickshire
CV37 6BB