Summary
A seminal work of trans theater brought to the page for the first time
When Pony, a formerly incarcerated trans guy, moves to a small rural town to start a new life, he quickly becomes entangled with its isolated community. He starts to fall for a waitress who is obsessed with a local murder; he must comply with a butch social worker who doesn’t understand him; and he is pursued by a young trans man who thinks Pony could be the father he always wanted. Amid this whirl…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780810148659 |
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| ISBN-10: | 081014865X |
| Author: | Sylvan Oswald |
| Publisher: | Northwestern University Press |
| Imprint: | Northwestern University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 15 June 2025 |
| Weight: | 454g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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Critics Review
“How do we reckon with the places where love and violence brush past? How do we free ourselves from the histories inside which we’re trapped? Pony is a play like a riddle, a play like a dare. Built from a theatrical language of longing and family, shape-shifting and queerness, Pony is a play about the stories we inhabit, the ones we become, and the urgency of unraveling those stories before they bury us. It has haunted me ever since I saw its earliest incarnation onstage in Chicago, and reencountering it now brings the keen pleasure of a mystery that only deepens with time.” - Jen Silverman, playwright, novelist and screenwriter
About The Author
Sylvan Oswald
Sylvan Oswald writes formally inventive plays and performance texts that explore queer and trans life. His work has been performed throughout the US and in London; his honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2019. He lives in Los Angeles, where he is a professor of playwriting at UCLA.
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