Ponies
by Mike Batistick

"Mike Batistick's punchy New York story, PONIES…is about the precariousness of immigrant life in New York after 9/11…Mr. Batistick has a good ear for dialogue, and his foulmouthed, cruel banter has the ring of truth.“ —The New York Times. ”In Mike Batistick's brisk drama…a seedy Lower East Side Off-Track Betting center is the most hopeful place in New York.“ —The New Yorker. ”A bracingly uncensored exploration of the tensions and treacheries in a beleaguered male subculture…You can almost smell the reek of frantic hope in the seedy Off-Track betting-shop in PONIES, where we see three recent immigrants backing horses, sweating on the results and trading insults. You could not accuse Batistick of sentimentalising the trio…It's PONIES to which I raise a double measure.“ —The Independent (UK). ”Mike Batistick's sharp-as-a-flick-knife play centres on Drazen, a sinister comic rogue, who is happy to destroy those around him in order to suit his febrile whims…Batistick's vision is horrify"

— Time Out London