Absurd, explosive, and painfully familiar.
The Natural Horse is a dark comedy about power, family, and how far we’ll go to maintain a myth. The Kareninas, a family of ex-Soviet immigrants, struggle to maintain their familial relationships after their eldest daughter, Masha, adopts a feral horse named Goodboy and brings him to live in their comfortable suburban home.
Presented by award-winning indie company Salad Days Collective, this debut Australian season gallops into Brisbane Festival with guts, grime, and glitter.
Dates & Times
24 - 27 Sep
Duration: 90 Mins
Venue
Prices & Ticket Info
Adult - $45 Concession - $35
Accessibility
- 50% Visual Content
- Assistive Listening
- Wheelchair Access
Credits
Director - Rebecca Day
Assistant Director / Design - Ada Ludkin
Sound Design - New Resource
Stage Manager - Jackson Paul
Production Assistant - Cutter Harris
Masha - Jasmine Prasser
Lil G - Georgina Sawyer
Anton - Calum Johnston
Svetka - Lachlan Orton
Charlotte - Neve Francis
Kirk - Lauren Dillon
Co-produced by Salad Days Collective and PIP Theatre
Reviews
Stage Door Podcast
Artists
Salad Days Collective
Salad Days Collective is an independent creative company founded by Jasmine Prasser and Leo Buzac, and now shaped by the creative leadership of Jasmine Prasser and Georgina Sawyer.
Dedicated to a fearless, interdisciplinary approach to storytelling, Salad Days champions ambitious, provocative work — unafraid to honour brilliant yet often overlooked plays and push the boundaries of contemporary theatre.
Their mission is to redefine success as the act of creation itself: bold, collaborative, and artistically uncompromising. By combining diverse creative voices and taking risks with form, narrative, and ideology, Salad Days Collective creates work that is confrontational, playful, and deeply human — embracing the process as the ultimate achievement.
T. Adamson
T. ADAMSON is an Texas-raised writer and theater artist of Anglo/Mexican ancestry. Favorites include Usus (Clubbed Thumb, Best Theater 2024: Vulture & The New Yorker), The Natural Horse (Alleyway Theatre, Metro Arts Brisbane, NPC finalist), No Nothing (Vineyard Reading Series, GPTC), The Straights (JACK), and My Dead Father the Salesman (NPC finalist)..
T. is an alumnus of Fresh Ground Pepper NYC’s Playground Playgroup, Exquisite Corpse Company's Fall Writers’ Lab, and Clubbed Thumb's Early Career Writers’ Group.
Irv Zarkower Award, Rita and Burton Goldberg Playwriting Prize, Maxim Mazumdar Award, Falco/Steinman Commission from Playwrights Horizons, 2022-23 Paula Vogel Playwriting Award from Vineyard Theatre. Currently in development: Bughouse, in collaboration with Martha Clarke.
An avid record collector, board-game enthusiast, etc. Now living in NYC and teaching at Purchase College.
MFA: Hunter College. BFA: NYU Tisch.