Coyote Ugly

TIME OUT CRITICS’ CHOICE

Imagine returning to your parents’ home after a 12-year absence to find waiting for you the same resentment, animosity and general family dysfunction that made you leave in the first place. Imagine having a Pandora’s Box stuffed to the brim with family secrets and knowing that crossing that threshold is going to pry the box wide open. Imagine that those secrets deal with matters of sexual impropriety and betrayal of trust – and still your life would not be half as disturbing as the characters in Coyote Ugly. An immensely compelling unrequited love story tied up in one very high-strung family drama…

Coyote Ugly was originally presented in the US by Chicago’s acclaimed Steppenwolf Theatre Company in a production starring Laurie Metcalf, and directed by actor John Malkovich. Seen on the London fringe in 1992 and at the Manchester Royal Exchange, it now receives its first London revival in over ten years.

The Icarus Theatre Collective, founded in November 2003, is a collaboration of artists from varied multi-cultural backgrounds, combining their unique styles into a harmonious whole. Coyote Ugly features artists from America, Spain, The Czech Republic, Ireland, France, and across Europe.  Our first production, The Lesson by Eugene Ionesco, featured a British and Australian cast and was directed by the French/American Artistic Director of the collective.  Time Out called it “entertaining”, “imaginative”, and “a fine production”, describing it as “90s ‘in-yer-face’ apocalypticism.”