The Road Ahead for Pinky Swear
Co-Artistic and Executive Director Karen Lange talks about PS’ 2013 productions and what the future holds: This was the year of identity. We didn’t plan it that way — it just happened. Last spring’s Unclear Family Repertory featured characters redefining what it means to be a friend, a wife, a husband, or a mother, as […]
New Show, New Theater, November
We are thrilled to announce our next play: This November, Pinky Swear is proud to present David Henry Hwang’s BONDAGE. In a Los Angeles S&M parlor, a dominatrix and her client are clad head-to-toe in leather costumes that conceal their faces and ethnicities. These elaborate disguises allow them to play out fantasies based on racial […]
Gender Dynamics
Gender Dynamics by Steve Spotswood To say I am sensitized to gender dynamics in my plays might be an understatement. I’m not sure when it started. It might have been grad school; it might have been earlier. The first full-length play I wrote after entering grad school centered on two middle-aged women who had been […]
The Unclear Family: A Repertory
Spring 2013 When the bonds that hold the family together are broken, twisted, or begin to dissolve, what is the shape of the thing that’s left? Is it still a family, something less, or something more? This spring, Pinky Swear Productions presents three plays, including two world premieres by D.C. playwrights, that ask this question […]
Cabaret XXX: Love the One You’re With
2012 Pinky Swear returned to the Capital Fringe Festival in July 2012. What it was: We kicked some major ass with the first Cabaret XXX at the 2011 Fringe Festival — winning Best Musical in the process! We are now basking in the glow of our first full season of programming. It is a good […]