Three men, one green card, zero trust — welcome to the American dream's back room.
Based on the acclaimed play that the Independent of London hailed as "a bracingly uncensored exploration of the tensions and treacheries in a beleaguered male subculture", PONIES is about three men in a treacherous subset of society, and uses the gambling parlor as a backdrop for a provocative modern morality tale. Ultimately, these men-immigrants, Americans, human beings-are forced to protect from one another their most valuable commodity: the right to stay on American soil.
Acting
Ventimiglia and Corrigan bring stage-honed volatility to every twitch.
Writing
Play-to-screen adaptation that keeps the theatrical pressure cooker sealed.
Director
Nick Sandow
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The play premiered at London's Bush Theatre in 2011, written by Mike Batistick who drew from his own Queens upbringing watching immigrant men gamble away stability.
Sandow directed this between acting gigs on 'Orange Is the New Black' — he plays Joe Caputo's hapless sidekick Pornstache's boss.
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