Stagecraft Theatre - Silly Cow

Ben Elton’s second play “Silly Cow”, described as a “comic revenge tragedy”, is a very, very funny piece of writing! His astute observational skills and desire to pull no punches have allowed his humour to take on a deliciously wicked quality as he focuses on actors, the price of ambition, critics and ‘journalistic liberty’.

“Is the press to be shackled by an unhealthy obsession with the facts? It’s going to make for some very dull breakfast reading if everything we write has to be true.”

This wickedly funny satire on the slick and savage world of the tabloid press portrays a protagonist who has clawed her way to success and celebrity as a merciless and vicious critic: “I’m the nasty cow who slaughters the sacred cows”. She has everything that a tough tabloid columnist could want - a toy boy with a regular supply of Columbian gear, a pretty PA who might come to share her libidinous preferences, the prospect of her own TV show and not a scruple in sight... any skeletons she may have in her cupboard are, like her bondage gear, firmly locked up, or so she believes.

Coolly unconcerned by the impending libel suit brought by one of her victims and not averse to a bit of double dealing in order to secure her next career move, she swans about her apartment like a queen but even she cannot comprehend the truly Machiavellian plot brewing in the wings.

“I trust all editors to be dirty, duplicitous little weasels and not one has ever failed me!”

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