About the Show

The Royal Shakespeare Company’s queer comedy Western by Charlie Josephine.

In a sleepy town in the Wild West, the women go through the motions while their husbands - chasing the gold rush - have been missing for almost a year. The town is almost entirely cut off from the outside world until handsome bandit Jack Cannon swaggers up to the town’s saloon, looking for a place to hide from bounty hunters.

Jack’s arrival inspires a gender revolution and starts a fire under all of the town's repressed women.

'Cowbois' transfers to London after its premiere at the RSC in Stratford Upon Avon in November 2023.

Critic Reviews (8)

" 'Cowbois' isn’t a bad play per se. It’s a fun and gimmicky queer-affirming semi-comedy"
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"There’s no such thing as utopia in the swagger-filled landscape of 'Cowbois'"
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" 'Cowbois' finds its footing and delivers a piece of theatre that is quite rare"
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"‘Cowbois’ is a ray of sunshine...after a gruelling recent stretch of shows."
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"This baggily playful, queer subversion of Wild West tropes is a delight"
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"[The] play mixes retro references with modern visions of what a queer utopia could be"
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" 'Cowbois' is still a lot of fun and has many great qualities going for it."
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" 'Cowbois' is thoroughly playful and wonderfully enjoyable..."
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