OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Colin Teevan 

• Notes

  A play for post-primary school students.

• Synopsis

  Here Comes Cowboys is set in the larger than life world of clowns, where cruelty and comedy are mirror images of each other. In the course of the play generations and mythologies collide, cinema takes on literature, Jesse James confronts Oisín, and Yeats and Joyce joust with True Grit.
  
  Here Come Cowboys looks at the games young people play. It explores how young people exploit each other and how they can pick on the weakest. It examines peer pressure, isolation, and the real fears that young people have concerning the savage games that they play.

• Play Type

  Theatre for Young Audiences
  

  Number Of Acts

  Full-Length

Cast size

• Male

  3

• Female

  1

• Total

  4

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  1992

• Producer

  Produced by TEAM Educational Theatre Company

• Venue Notes

  First performed as part of a tour to schools.

Source Of Information

The information for this entry was taken from the teachers' information pack for the original production.