Thinking Theater NYC

Road Kills Written by Sophie McIntosh Directed by Nina Goodheart Presented by Good Apples Collective and ryan duncan-ayala at Paradise Factory 64 E 4th St., Manhattan, NYC August 15-September 6, 2025 Mia Sinclair Jenness and D.B. Milliken. Photo by Nina Goodheart Last summer's production of cunnicularii , from playwright Sophie McIntosh and director Nina Goodheart, used a rabbit to explore birth and parenthood; in this summer's production of new work Road Kills , the creative pair of McIntosh and Goodheart return with a play in which all of the non-human animals we see are dead and the parents remain offstage. Family legacies and expectations nonetheless loom large for the play's central duo, who come to know one another more and more intimately, if haltingly and sometimes unwillingly, as they clean up roadkill in rural Wisconsin, one voluntarily and the other as a condition of community service. Another in a line of memorable shows by Good Apples Collective, Road Kills ...

cunnicularii Written by Sophie McIntosh Directed by Nina Goodheart Presented by Good Apples Collective and Esmé Maria Ng at Alchemical Studios 50 West 17th Street, Manhattan, NYC June 28-July 13, 2024 Camille Umoff. Photo credit: Nina Goodheart Photography In 1726, an English laborer named Mary Toft who lived in Godalming, Surrey, convinced doctors (male, of course), both local and called in from London, that she was giving birth to (dead) rabbits (and some other assorted non-human animal parts). Although this unusual reproductivity was eventually determined to be a deception, Toft's story throws into relief not only the apparatuses of power and knowledge surrounding women's bodies but men's ignorance of those bodies, compounded by patriarchal moralism, joined with their ignoring evidence that maybe these bunnies originated elsewhere than Toft's womb in favor of their own self-advancement. With her fantastic–and fantastical–new play, cunnicularii , Sophie McIntosh, a...

cityscrape Written by Sophie McIntosh Directed by Nina Goodheart Presented by Good Apples Collective and Gillian Fu at Arts on Site 12 St. Marks Place, Studio 3R, Manhattan, NYC (masks required) May 18-28, 2023 Mia Fowler and Simone Policano. Photo courtesy of Good Apples Collective After last summer's widely praised macbitches (you can read our review here ) delved into the female-friend-group machinations surrounding a university production of Macbeth , playwright Sophie McIntosh returns to themes around the perils, power, and pleasures of women's friendship among the under-30 creative class with her new play, cityscrape . cityscrape marks the engrossing debut production from McIntosh and director Nina Goodheart's Good Apples Collective, which aims to " empower emerging [queer and gender-marginalized] artists to … revolt against oppressive hierarchies ." In part, cityscrape itself dramatizes the difficulties of scraping by as an emerging artist, at the same t...