{"product_id":"pony-a-play-paperback-softback-9780810148659","title":"Pony; A Play (Paperback \/ softback) 9780810148659","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003ePony\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Play\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSylvan Oswald (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780810148659\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 15 June 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e144 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e“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? \u003ci\u003ePony\u003c\/i\u003e is a play like a riddle, a play like a dare. Built from a theatrical language of longing and family, shape-shifting and queerness, \u003ci\u003ePony\u003c\/i\u003e 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\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eA seminal work of trans theater brought to the page for the first time\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e 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 whirlwind of fear and desire, Pony must find the strength to confront the stories he's been told about masculinity, violence, and self-worth. With a new preface by the author on searching for queer and trans community in the theater, and an afterword by critic Miriam Felton-Dansky contextualizing its place in contemporary theater, \u003ci\u003ePony\u003c\/i\u003e is a seminal work of trans theater exploring questions of generational difference, class, and gender on an epic scale.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface: \"Soft Butch Landing,\" by Sylvan Oswald \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePony\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Afterword: \"The Other Side of the Forest: \u003ci\u003ePony\u003c\/i\u003e, Transmasculinity, and Generational Shift,\" by Miriam Felton-Dansky \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Northwestern University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52555668095256,"sku":"9780810148659","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/pony-a-play-paperback-softback-9780810148659","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}