Looking for the Pony

Looking for the Pony

Venus Theatre Play Shack
21 C Street Laurel

Eloisa (Oisie) is finally ready to leave a lifeless career to pursue a long-delayed dream when her sister Lauren is diagnosed with breast cancer. Lauren’s perfect life and Oisie’s second chance collide as the sisters grab hands and embark on a roller-coaster ride of treatment, ambition, loss, and acceptance. Myriad other characters are played in quick, and often comic, succession by two other actors. As funny as it is heart-breaking, This play is a fast-paced journey dedicated to the fierce love of two sisters. Oisie and Lauren’s love for one another transforms and ultimately deepens through the fight for Lauren’s survival and Oisie’s dream. Poetic scenes are punctuated with naturalistic beats as the journey pulls Oisie into the past that forged their unique bond. The play unfolds as a life-affirming fugue even in Lauren’s ultimate death and Oisie’s bittersweet emergence. The life force wins.

Thru - Nov 21, 2010