Elf Lyons to bring laughs across the UK with Horse

Don’t hold your horses, this is no nag…

Elf Lyons is bringing her new show Horses, the first ever comedy show performed entirely by a horse, on tour next summer, after a hugely successful run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year.

Bring your most enthusiastic childhood horse-loving energy to this new hour, all about play and the power of pretending. Treacle’s masterful performance has been directed by Elf Lyons, assisted creatively by Trygve Wakenshaw and Dylan Moran.

“A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who does not play has lost forever the child who lived in him.”  Pablo Neruda

A celebration of the child within, this hour has everything in it! Expect mime, stand-up, clown pieces and shadow puppetry all performed by Treacle, the horse and Francis of Acissi has helped interpret the interviews with horses, Bob Fosse has helped with choreography and at points Alfred Hitchcock has helped with the dramaturgy…

Elf Lyons is an award-winning comedian, theatre maker, director, comedy writer and voice artist. She has gained a cult reputation as one of the most innovative performers on the UK comedy and theatre scene. Her work has included re-enactments of classical ballets, musicals about the economy, immersive horror shows and even lectures at venues such as the Barbican on the Surrealist movement.

Horse

15 May 2025      Exeter                   Phoenix

17 May 2025      Bath                      Rondo Theatre

18 May 2025      Bristol                  Tobacco Factory

21 May 2025      Leicester             Attenborough Arts Centre

22 May 2025      Leeds                   Hyde Park Book Club

23 May 2025      York                       Theatre@41

24 May 2025      Norwich              Norwich Playhouse

29 May 2025      Brighton              The Old Market

30 May 2025      Cambridge         Junction

31 May 2025      Oxford                  Arts at the Old Fire Station

01 June 2025     London                UCL Bloomsbury Theatre

05 June 2025     Hull                       Truck Theatre – Studio

06 June 2025     Edinburgh           Monkey Barrel

07 June 2025     Glasgow              The Stand

08 June 2025     Newcastle          The Stand

For tickets visit: https://www.mickperrin.com/tours/elf-lyons-horses/