Boxcar
By Else C. Went
2017 Parity Development Award Winner

Boxcar Reading, June 21, 2019. Pictured (left to right): Brandon Contreras as “Geraldo,”Brittany Anikka Liu “Polly,” Emily Batsford as Ida,” and Nicholas Tyler Corbin as “Firefly.” Photography by Maya Graffagna.

SYNOPSIS

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 hopes on in the night, Ida seizes 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 content with the things that set them running.

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About the Playwright:

Else C. Went (they/them, she/her) 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.

View Else’s profile in The Parity Database.


 

Excerpts of Boxcar at the Annual Parity Gala, October 25, 2017 at The Cutting Room. Pictured: Emily Batsford as “Ida” left, and Emily Skeggs as “Alexis.” Photography by Demetra Demitriades (left) and Carlotta Brentan (right).

 
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