Herd

A witty and heartfelt look at a family falling apart and pulling together when life doesn't turn out quite the way they imagined.
Co-Recipient of the 2014 Critics' Circle Most Promising Playwright AwardRory Kinnear's debut play is a witty and heartfelt look at a family falling apart and pulling together when life doesn’t turn out quite the way they imagined.It's Andy Griffith's twenty-first birthday. Not that he's counting. But his mother Carol is. Counting the minutes until he arrives, counting the unexpected guests, counting the times that something like this has happened before."Remarkable... all the roles represent gifts for actors." - Telegraph"An accomplished debut... a vivid and unsentimental portrait of domestic life, flecked with wry humour." -Evening Standard"Grips like a vice." - Whatsonstage.com"Witty, agonising and eye-opening... a weave of painful insights and playful humour." -IndependentRory Kinnear is an actor and playwright. He has played Hamlet and Iago at the National Theatre, Angelo inMeasure for Measure at the Almeida, and Bolingbroke in Richard II for the BBC.The Herd is his first play.
Rory Kinnear's debut play is a witty and heartfelt look at a family falling apart and pulling together.