I ended my Saturday Fringe Binge in an ideal way seeing Devin Bateson’s Men Love Horsies: The Musical– a long lost sibling show to Jessie Walker’s Horse Girls from a couple Fringes ago. One of my favourite things about Canadian musical theatre is that it doesn’t take itself too seriously, and this silly, random little gem of a Fringe show is exactly the delightful ridiculousness that you can get when you let your imagination run like a Sable Island horse and don’t feel too precious about it.

Devin Bateson plays all the parts in this musical, and creates a whole world for us anchored by one cowboy who loves horses so much he just has to sing about them. He also wants to bring them into as close proximity to himself as possible (but not in a weird way, unless horses playing basketball is weird, in which case, okay maybe a bit weird). He dreams of a better world where horses dominate the streets, and they are involved in human’s day to day lives, and wishing appears to make it so. But, out of this slower paced community where horse lanes and bike lanes exist side by side comes an evil villain, who Bateson writes in Grinch-like terms, and who seeks to destroy all the horses and replace them with a vile environmental disaster contraption. What will happen to the horses and the men that love them? You will need to go see this rollicking madcap sing along romp to find out. Read more at link!