BOXCAR

by Else C. Went, 2017 Annual Parity Commission winner

Please join us for an invited reading on Thursday, June 20th at 3:30PM in Brooklyn

Boxcar Reading
Thursday, June 20th at 3:30PM
Please RSVP to emily@parityproductions.org to reserve your seat and to receive the location of the reading.

Featuring: Emily Batsford as Ida, Brandon Contreras as Geraldo, Nicholas-Tyler Corbin as Firefly, and Brittany Anikka Liu as Polly.

Casting: Jamibeth Margolis, CSA

Runaways Ida and Firefly have built a world on the ideals of liberty and respect. As train-hopping vagabonds, they travel the American landscape on a neverending pilgrimage. When a troubled teen calling herself Polly hops on in the night, Ida sizes the opportunity to share her experience and vision with the young girl. As this passionate mentorship grows complicated, as fabric of the world wears thin, the travelers must confront the truth beneath the romance, and contend with the things that set them running.

ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT:

Else C. Went (they/them) is a non-binary playwright whose work has been developed by The Public, WP, Playwrights Realm, Parity Productions, The Tank, The Flea, The Brick, Florida Studio Theatre, ISC Santa Fe, Barn Arts Collective, and others. Else is a founding member of The Renovationists, a former Playwrights Realm Writing Fellow, and an alum of Trans Theatre Lab @ WP and The Public.

Else C. Went is a 2017 winner of our Annual Parity Commission.

Excerpts of Boxcar at our Annual Parity Gala, October 25, 2017 at The Cutting Room
Pictured (Left to Right): Emily Batsford as "Ida", Emily Skeggs as "Alexis"
Photography by Demetra Demetriades (Left) and Carlotta Brentan (Right)