Comedian Elf Lyons bringing newest show to Oxford this month

Ms Lyons will perform her show, Horses, at the Old Fire Station on Saturday, May 31.

The show is described as the "first-ever comedy show performed entirely by a horse" and is said to be a celebration of the "child within".

Elf Lyons (Image: Karla Gowlett) Elf Lyons (Image: Karla Gowlett) It includes mime, stand-up, clown pieces, and shadow puppetry.

Ms Lyons is an award-winning comedian, theatre maker, director, comedy writer, and voice artist.

Her work has included re-enactments of classical ballets, musicals about the economy, immersive horror shows, and lectures at venues such as the Barbican on the Surrealist movement.

Since 2017, she has been nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Show at the Edinburgh Fringe, the Malcolm Hardee Award for Comic Originality, Fringe World Perth’s Best Comedy Show, and in 2018, she won Pick of the Fringe at the Adelaide Fringe in Australia.

Elf Lyons (Image: Karla Gowlett) Elf Lyons (Image: Karla Gowlett) In 2023, Ms Lyons was listed in The Telegraph as one of the Top 50 Funniest Comedians of the 21st Century.

The Telegraph also awarded Horses five stars and said: "I adored every silly-filly bit of it and I can’t think of many performers who combine such bravura comic invention with such livewire pluck.”

The Skinny added: "Elf Lyons' new show is powered by a beautiful intention: to re-connect with the spirit of play.”