Review: “That Pony Feeling” Gets Stampeded in "The Antelope Party"
The Antelope Party Written by Eric John Meyer Directed by Jess Chayes Presented by Dutch Kills Theater at the wild project 195 E. 3rd Street, Manhattan, NYC November 4-21, 2021 [Update 11/19/21: Extended through December 4, 2021] Quinn Franzen, Anna Ishida, Will Dagger, Edward Mawere & Caitlin Morris. Photo by Bjorn Bolinder I remember loving playing with my sister’s My Little Ponies as a child. We would stage battles between my Legos and her ponies—GI Joe wasn’t my thing. But I had forgotten about them in adulthood until a few years ago when, during the holidays, I saw my niece and nephews playing with the same ponies that my mother still keeps around her house for when the kids visit. Seeing the now-faded plastic toys brought up few emotions for me, but evidently, for some in my generation, those ponies are at the center of their social lives. Awareness of Brony culture entered the mainstream with the 2014 documentary A Brony Tale , which follows the adult men who are f...