“If you can put up with the title, I’m sure you can handle the show,” Linus Karp laughs.

Originally from Sweden, Linus Karp stumbled upon the script for Awkward Conversations With Animals I’ve F*cked in a book shop and immediately fell in love with it.

Frustrated at the lack of opportunities in the acting world, especially as a non British performer, he decided to set up his own theatre company and perform the monologue he loved. 

After sold out shows, great reviews and endless praise, the tragi-comic one-hander ‘Awkward Conversations With Animals I’ve F*cked’ is embarking on a national tour starting in Oxford’s Burton Taylor Studio on September 24-25.


“I first performed it in a small pub theatre in London, and never thought it could have a future life. I just felt like it was something I had to do to challenge myself as a performer and show that I was capable of doing it,” Linus says.

“Luckily it went really well and reviews were great, so we decided to take it to Edinburgh Fringe the following summer.”


Sold out shows with Underbelly during the Fringe Festival 2018 led to a transfer to King’s Head Theatre this Spring, which in turn led to interest from regional venues across the country.


“With reactions being great and us having such a good time performing it, I felt we had to make the tour a reality – I can’t wait to see how new audiences will respond to the show.”

In the play you follow Bobby through his painfully awkward morning after conversations with various animals that he has, yes, f*cked. Though a surreal, funny and definitely disturbed set up, Karp says there’s more to the show than just weird.

“The strength of the show is how it takes an extreme subject, and then makes it strangely relatable. At its core it’s very much a human story about loneliness and relationships that I think we can all relate to, so Bobby becomes a character you can’t help but care about. “

As fr coming to Oxford, Linus says: “I am so excited to start in Oxford”, says Linus. “I’ve visited many times and as a city made famous by its universities and culture, I think it’s where we’ll find just the type of audience the show tends to be most popular with”.



‘Awkward Conversations With Animals I’ve F*cked’ is playing at the Burton Taylor Studio on September Tuesday 24-Wednesday 25

Box office at 01865 305305 or oxfordplayhouse.com


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