Pony

L-R Kristina Valada-Viars, Jessica Hudson, and Kelli Simpkins in the About Face Theatre Production directed by Bonnie Metzgar. Costumes by David Hyman, Set Design by Tom Burch, Lighting Design by Lee Fiskness. Photo by Michael Brosilow.

L-R Kristina Valada-Viars and Jessica Hudson in the About Face Theatre Production directed by Bonnie Metzgar. Costumes by David Hyman, Set Design by Tom Burch, Lighting Design by Lee Fiskness. Photo by Michael Brosilow.

L-R Janet Ulrich Brooks and Kelli Simpkins in the About Face Theatre Production directed by Bonnie Metzgar. Costumes by David Hyman, Set Design by Tom Burch, Lighting Design by Lee Fiskness. Photo by Michael Brosilow.

L-R Jessica Hudson and Matthew Sherbach in the About Face Theatre Production directed by Bonnie Metzgar. Costumes by David Hyman, Set Design by Tom Burch, Lighting Design by Lee Fiskness. Photo by Michael Brosilow.

L-R Janet Ulrich Brooks and Matthew Sherbach in the About Face Theatre Production directed by Bonnie Metzgar. Costumes by David Hyman, Set Design by Tom Burch, Lighting Design by Lee Fiskness. Photo by Michael Brosilow.

L-R Kristina Valada-Viars and Kelli Simpkins in the About Face Theatre Production directed by Bonnie Metzgar. Costumes by David Hyman, Set Design by Tom Burch, Lighting Design by Lee Fiskness. Photo by Michael Brosilow.

Kelli Simpkins as Pony and Kristina Valada-Viars as Marie in the About Face Theatre production directed by Bonnie Metzgar. Photo by Michael Brosilow.

PONY:
Do you ever have normal fantasies?

Set near the location of the famous murder scene in Woyzeck, Pony is a tale of shifting gender roles and the dangers of obsessive love.

Premiered Spring 2011 at About Face Theatre in Chicago, directed by Bonnie Metzgar. Developed in a workshop at Portland Center Stage's JAW Festival, New York Theater Workshop, and with Karina Mangu-Ward, and with the support of a Thurber House Fellowship from Ohio State University, and a Jerome Fellowship from the Playwrights Center in Minneapolis.

Full length play. 120 minutes. 5 actors. The characters are 2 femme women, 1 butch woman, 1 gender nonconforming person (assigned female, passing as male), and 1 trans man.