“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

"Pony is a gorgeous and ghostly piece of theater, at once a haunting and a love story. Queer in both form and content, this play interrogates the challenge of disentangling masculinity from violence in the queer body, the claustrophobia of a small-town queer community, and the power of narrative both for liberation and for trapping us in roles and stories about who we are. This play made a huge impact on me as a young playwright and I remain only more and inspired re-encountering it a decade later." —MJ Kaufman, Playwright 
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