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The Bushwick Starr and Half Straddle, present In The Pony Palace/FOOTBALL. Half Straddle artistic director Tina Satter claims the traditionally male construct of athletics and team sports, as embodied in American football, and reframes it for a female paradigm in the company’s new piece.
A cast of downtown favorites including Moe Angelos, Jess Barbagallo, Eliza Bent, Nikki Colange, Emily Davis, Erin Markey, Glennis McMurray, Kourtney Rutherford and Julia Sirna-Frest are the players, cheerleaders and coaches in this theatrical and slyly subversive consideration of gendered roles, sports culture and performance. Mixing the specific language, aesthetics and dynamics of football with Tina’s incisive and tweaked reinterpretation of high school-speak, Half Straddle creates the world of the Pony Palace where girls totally play football in full pads, cheerleaders still have all the power, and everyone lives for something that might not really matter.
Half Straddle composer Chris Giarmo and musician Bobby McElver create the score for this singular high school landscape with mash-ups of the forgotten Rolling Stones album, “Black and Blue” and obscure Lady Gaga songs played live with the Pony Palace marching band.
In The Pony Palace/FOOTBALL is written and directed by Tina Satter (FAMILY, Top 10 Show of 2009 by Time Out New York). Designers include Zack Tinkelman (The Kitchen) and Andreea Mincic (recently designed the Obie Award-winning show, Three Pianos).
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