Horse Head Theatre Co. presents the Regional Premiere

The Judgment of Fools
By Bernardo Cubría

Directed by Philip Hays
​OCTOBER 25 - NOVEMBER 12, 2016
@ REC ROOM, 100 JACKSON ST., HOUSTON, TX 77002

Our crack squad of postmodern jesters needs your help!

We’ve seen your Tweets. We’ve watched your Vlog. We even read that Yelp review you wrote that one time. And now we need you to put your well-honed, significantly above-average snap judgment skills to work!

The world seems pretty crazy right now and we’re all trying to make sense of it. So come help us figure it out! Have a laugh, blow off some steam, knock back a few and tell us what you really think...

The Judgment of Fools is a debauched vaudevillian social experiment—a comedy like no other. Building on the time-honored tradition of bouffon (that’s fancy French clown lingo for talking back to the audience), spectators will be polled, prodded and poked as a convocation of “Fools” ask them to flex their judging muscles. Like the court jesters of olde, but in Converse All-Stars, these Fools will descend on Houston to reflect the folly of the world. But they need your help to make sense of it all. They want your thoughts. They want your opinions. They want your emojis, your re-tweets, your “Likes.”

You see, the audience is the star of this show. Although The Judgment of Fools is mostly scripted (we’d guess 80% most nights), these Fools will mine the moments of the show from audience interactions.   

Have you ever want to talk back to a character, during a show? This is your chance.

Have you ever wanted to bust out a real conversation with the person next to you? Do it here.

Have you ever wanted to just stop a friggin’ play in the middle of a scene? Here, you can!

Equipped with “The Megaphone of Justice” (yes, it’s a thing), Judgment audiences have the power to literally stop the show -- assuming your fellow audience members agree that the Fools have gone too far! If not, you’re out of luck and may console yourself with a free, cheap-ass beer. So, you know, it’s that kind of play.
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Horse Head dares to say: judge not lest ye be fooled.

Director Philip Hays and actor Brendon Duran Discuss Les Fools:

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Missed the show? Never fear - we filmed the closing night!

Performance dates:

Pay-what-you-can Preview - Tuesday, October 25 @ 8 p.m.
Pay-what-you-can Preview - Wednesday, October 26 @ 8 p.m.

Opening Night! - Thursday, October 27 @ 8 p.m.
Friday, October 28 @ 8 p.m.
Saturday, October 29 @ 8 p.m.
BONUS Late Night Show - Saturday, October 29 @ 10 p.m.
Thursday, November 3 @ 8 p.m.
Saturday, November 5 @ 8 p.m.
BONUS Late Night Show - Saturday, November 5 @ 10 p.m.
Wednesday, November 9 @ 8 p.m.
Thursday, November 10 @ 8 p.m.
Friday, November 11 @ 8 p.m.
Closing Night! - Saturday, November 12 @ 8 p.m.
BONUS Late Night Show - Saturday, November 12 @ 10 p.m.

Special Events - Pre-show fun starts at @ 7:30PM:

• Week One (Thursday - Saturday, October 27 - 29):- HALLO-WEEK-END COSTUME CONTEST
  • In honor of Halloween, a door prize will be awarded to the best costumed audience member.
• Week Two (Thursday & Saturday, November 3 & 5): FOOL'S OPEN BALLOT
  • As practice for the upcoming vote, HH will host their own write-in election. Who would you like to see in the White House? A door prize will be awarded to the best nomination.
• Week Three (Wednesday - Saturday, November 9 - 12): VOTER APPRECIATION NIGHT
  • In honor of our nation’s 57th (presumably) successful Presidential Election and in celebration of this great country’s democracy, Horse Head will forcefully demand a $5 donation at the door for anyone who did NOT vote, publicly shame them and withhold all door prizes.​

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​Horse Head is funded in part by grants from the Houston Arts Alliance on behalf of City of Houston.