Josh Widdicombe
Available Saturdays only, though arguments about timing continue weekly.
- Location
- Near the Lyric Theatre, Carmarthen, adapted for the December season.
- Currently
- Back half of a pantomime horse, developing increasingly elaborate complaints.
- Last confirmed sighting
- Attempting to explain the plot to his front half during the matinee interval.
- Observations
- Has somehow already made the front half's anxiety worse through the costume's shared nervous system.
Josh Widdicombe has taken the back half of a pantomime horse in the Carmarthen production of Cinderella, a decision now widely regretted by the front half. The arrangement has created unprecedented tension backstage, as his observational monologues about the indignity of hooves have begun bleeding into performance. His partner, mute by tradition, has started kicking.
"I work in the costume department," says Trevor, 51, a local seamstress. "He kept complaining about the tail attachment through the entire second act, explaining in great detail why it was uncomfortable, anatomically implausible, and why this particular costume design had destroyed his evening. The front half just wanted to do the chase scene."
The council has received forty-three complaints about audible commentary coming from the horse's rear during the ball scene, three commendations for the jokes about backstage logistics, and one formal request asking him to stop, posted on the theatre noticeboard in what appears to be his handwriting.
Do not engage the back half in conversation about scheduling, logistics, or the historical accuracy of any scene.
Actual status (not satire) No death recorded as of 22 October 2026. Born 8 April 1983. Source: Wikidata
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