For Their Own Good

Fringe First Award Winner 2013. Two knackermen, a horse, a gun and a tiny metropolis full of death. Can examining the way we kill animals teach us anything about our own demise?

With unflinching honesty and an eerily detached workmanship, two men investigate the pitfalls of being high up the evolutionary chain. While dispatching the sick, lame or just plain old their own mortality is suddenly and sharply brought into focus.

Combining beautiful puppetry, new writing and documentary material, this award-winning show tells a moving and darkly comic tale about the only certainty in life - Death. How it’s become removed from us as a process. How maybe we should reclaim it.

‘Astonishingly Poignant…a rare energy and power…’ Joyce McMillan, The Scotsman

A bitesize commission supported by MAC Birmingham, Warwick Arts Centre, Bristol Ferment, China Plate Theatre, Arts Council of England and the British Council.