Part of our 46th season: SAINTS AND REBELS
HORSEPLAY
MAY 14 - JUNE 1, 2025
by KOLE
DURNFORD
Suggested Pricing is $40 per single ticket and $150 per subscription.
WWPT’s 46th season closes with the World Premiere of HORSEPLAY by Kole Durnford.
A play that is sure to saddle up to your heartstrings.
Kole Durnford is an award nominated Métis actor and playwright from Stony Plain, Alberta. A horse and his jockey live to laugh and ride together. Bonded like brothers, when news arrives that Horse will be sold unless they win their upcoming race, Jacques presses Horse to go for broke, but at what cost?
This shimmering, wistful, funny play about love, burn out, and what it takes to follow your dreams, marks the professional playwriting premiere of one of Alberta’s most electrifying young writers.
Meet the cast and crew of HORSEPLAY.
Kole Durnford, Playwright
What people are saying…
“I think when I wrote Horseplay I wanted to write something that’s like an 11 p.m. Fringe show. Very weird and also very alive.”
“Every once in a while, I leave an Edmonton theatre feeling lighter than when I entered. Such was the case this week, when I saw Horseplay at the Gateway.”
“There’s a bright buoyant sparkle to HORSEPLAY, the funny, dreamy, heart-breaker of a season-ender at Workshop West.”
Photo by Marc J Chalifoux
Why Heather chose HORSEPLAY
“It is a joy and a privilege to share the heart and talent and brilliance of the newest generation of Canadian talent with Workshop West’s audiences. Kole sent his play to WWPT’s Reading Service and when I first read it, I wept. It speaks to the truest of loves in the harshest of worlds. If we are lucky, we are granted a friendship once or twice in our lives that changes us. These rarest of gifts can set us free, welcome us home, and break out hearts. Enter the wonderful, wacky, shimmering world of HORSEPLAY —which is (shhh) not really a play about horses.”
-Heather Inglis,
Artistic Producer, WWPT
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