Part of our 46th season: SAINTS AND REBELS
HORSEPLAY
MAY 14 - JUNE 1, 2025
by KOLE
DURNFORD
Suggested Pricing is $40 per single ticket and $150 per subscription.
WWPT’s 46th season closes with the World Premiere of HORSEPLAY by Kole Durnford.
A play that is sure to saddle up to your heartstrings.
Kole Durnford is an award nominated Métis actor and playwright from Stony Plain, Alberta. A horse and his jockey live to laugh and ride together. Bonded like brothers, when news arrives that Horse will be sold unless they win their upcoming race, Jacques presses Horse to go for broke, but at what cost?
This shimmering, wistful, funny play about love, burn out, and what it takes to follow your dreams, marks the professional playwriting premiere of one of Alberta’s most electrifying young writers.
The cast of HORSEPLAY will be announced shortly.
Kole Durnford is a mixed Métis/settler actor and playwright originally from Stony Plain, Alberta. Kole’s first play ECHO, which was performed at the 2022 Edmonton Fringe, was recently produced for a third time as part of the 2023 Next Stage Festival. His follow up, HORSEPLAY, was shortlisted for the Toronto Fringe’s 24 Hour Playwriting Contest in 2024. Kole is also developing a thriller play, SKYSCRAPER, with support from Native Earth Performing Arts and the Banff Centre. Kole creates work that is bold in concept, pathos and liveness. As a performer, Kole is a two time Dora Mavor Award nominee.
PLAYWRIGHT
KOLE DURNFORD
Why Heather chose HORSEPLAY
“It is a joy and a privilege to share the heart and talent and brilliance of the newest generation of Canadian talent with Workshop West’s audiences. Kole sent his play to WWPT’s Reading Service and when I first read it, I wept. It speaks to the truest of loves in the harshest of worlds. If we are lucky, we are granted a friendship once or twice in our lives that changes us. These rarest of gifts can set us free, welcome us home, and break out hearts. Enter the wonderful, wacky, shimmering world of HORSEPLAY —which is (shhh) not really a play about horses.”
-Heather Inglis,
Artistic Producer, WWPT
More Coming Soon
More information on HORSEPLAY, such as info about the team, will be added soon. Keep an eye on our social media for exciting updates on our progress!
