My Big Fat Cowpat Wedding
by Sayan Kent
October - November 2016
Toured to over 25 community venues across England and Wales
Writer Sayan Kent
Sayan’s plays include Tales of Birbal (Mashi Theatre, 2015/2017), My Big Fat Cowpat Wedding (Kali/BCT, rural tour 2014 & 2016), Endless Light (Kali/Southwark Playhouse), Another Paradise (Kali tour, shortlisted for the John Whiting Award), The Contract (joint winner of the Capital New Writing Festival, Birmingham). Recent short plays: Jessica (Arcola), Skin (Park Theatre). Sayan is also a […]
About the writerOf course plenty does in this fast moving comedy drama full of misunderstanding and mishaps with plenty of neat twists and a Bhangra dance for everyone to join in at the end. Everyone loves a wedding don’t they?
Based on real people’s experience of mixed marriages or rural weddings attended by city dwellers out of their comfort zone, this was a fun, light hearted exploration of relationships across the divides of rural/urban, race and gender.
It’s was a site specific show with venues laid out for a wedding reception where the audience are the wedding guests and the show took place in amongst the audience.
My Big Fat Cowpat Wedding was created especially for rural and city community centre touring jointly with Arts Alive (rural touring scheme for Shropshire) and Black Country Touring. The first time a rural touring show has been created in this way.
Cowpat was originally produced in 2014 when it was seen by over 2,000 people across 24 performances, most sold out, in a tour across the UK to rural venues and city community centres.
In May 2015 it was revived for the Alchemy Festival at the Southbank Centre. We also took it to Wolverhampton and Smethwick Library.
In July 2015 an extract was presented at the National Rural Touring Forum Conference.
In 2016 it did a 7 week tour to 38 venues:
28 Sept Newhampton Arts Centre
29 Sept The Barbour Institute
Cheshire CH3 9PX
30 Sept Quatt Village Hall
Quatt Bridgnorth Shropshire WV15 6QN
1 Oct Meole Brace Peace Memorial Hall
Meole Brace Shrewsbury SY3 9JP
2 Oct Conquest Theatre
Bromyard Herefordshire HR7 4LL
5 Oct Brasshouse Community Centre
Smethwick B66 1BA
6 Oct Weaverthorpe Village Hall
Weaverthorpe YO17 8HA
7 Oct Skipton Town Hall
Skipton North Yorkshire BD23 1FD
8 Oct Hackforth Village Hall
Hackforth North Yorkshire DL8 1PE
9 Oct Hutton Rudby Village Hall
Hutton Rudby North Yorkshire TS15 0EJ
12 Oct Pattingham Village Hall
Pattingham Wolverhampton WV6 7BQ
13 Oct University of Worcester
Henwick Grove Worcester WR2 6AJ
14 Oct Norwell Village Hall
Norwell Nottinghamshire NG23 6LF
15 Oct Glebe Field Centre
Matlock Derbyshire DE4 5EU
16 Oct Sturton le Steeple Village Hall
Nottinghamshire DN22 9HY
18 Oct Bourton Village Hall
Dorset SP8 5BJ
19 Oct Portesham Village Hall
Dorset DT3 4NS
20 Oct Sixpenny Handley Village Hall
Dorset SP5 5NJ
21 Oct Yetminster Jubilee Hall
Dorset DT9 6LQ
22 Oct Black Dog Village Hall
Black Dog Village Devon EX17 4QS
23 Oct South Brent Village Hall
South Brent Devon TQ10 9AQ
25 Oct All Saints Church Hall
Trealaw Tonypady CF40 2NW
26 Oct Rhossili Village Hall
Swansea SA3 1PL.
27 Oct Catbrook Memorial Village Hall
Monmouthshire NP16 6NA
28 Oct The India Centre
Cardiff CF24 2AA
29 Oct Neuadd Dyfi
Aberdovey Gwynedd LL35 0NR
30 Oct Calolfan Clydau Centre
Llanfyrnach Pembrokeshire SA35 0BJ
2 Nov Shap Memorial Hall
Penrith Cumbria CA10 3NL
3 Nov Hamsterely Village Hall
Bishop Auckland Durham DL13 3QF
4 Nov Crook St Cuthbert’s Centre
County Durham DL15 9DN
5 Nov Hepscott Parish Hall
Morpeth Northumberland NE61 6LN
6 Nov Howick Village Hall
Alnwick Northumberland NE66 3LE
8 Nov Graffham Empire Hall
Petworth West Sussex GU28 0QB
10 Nov Falmouth The Poly
Falmouth, TR11 3EG
11 Nov Gwinear 71 Churchtown
Gwinear near Hayle TR27 5JL
12 Nov The Stithians Centre
Stithians TR3 7DH
13 Nov Perranporth Memorial Hall
Perranporth TR6 0EY
This tour was supported by a Strategic Touring Grant from Arts Council England