When a 15 year old boy leaves home with a gun, heads out to kill as many people as he can, say, at, a Planned Parentood clinic, and then kills himself, who should take the blame? The child himself? The father who deserted his young son and wife? The mother who, working two jobs, didn’t […]
What happens to a community after a mass shooting? A look into Blight by John Bavoso.
The rolling world premiere of Blight, a new play by playwright and DC Theatre Scene writer John Bavoso, is being produced by Pinky Swear Productions at the Anacostia Playhouse. “Silvia is looking to lay down roots and start a family and they find this nice, large house in a quaint neighborhood that is in their price […]
Review: Pinky Swear’s Metro play, Use All Available Doors
In the morning we go down, you and I, to the bowels of the Washington Metro Transit system and there jostle and sway, with hundreds of strangers, in metal rectangular boxes through tubes drilled far under the earth on the way to our myriad destinations. Playwright Brittany Alyse Willis does too, and so Willis wrote […]
Riding the Metro inspired this playwright. The result: Use All Available Doors opening at Dupont Underground
Brittany Alyse Willis, a non-binary trans person, who uses the singular “they” as their pronoun, used to commute to work by riding the Red Line from Maryland into Metro Center to work at one of the shops at the Natural History Museum, and although they didn’t know it at the time, their daily journey would set […]
Safe as Houses from Pinky Swear Productions
Safe as Houses seizes a few opportunities to explore how unintentionally hurting loved ones does not make that hurt any less your responsibility. It gets bogged down, however, in handwringing over a fantastical plot and fails to fully process this trauma.
Gems found at Kennedy Center’s Page-to-Stage 2017
Debbie Minter Jackson sends back this report from her visit to the Saturday, September 2, opening day of this year’s Page-to-Stage festival at the Kennedy Center and brings back some standouts that, hopefully will find their way from the page to local stages .
Pinky Swear rocks out Lizzie at Anacostia Playhouse (review)
Imagine a Victorian parlor where music is played and shared very much as it was in a bygone era, with songs and stories ripped from the headlines and whispers of a folk legend. Now, place yourself in a darkened club, where decibels assault the ears, where an edgy band pumps out tunes for a gutsy […]
Page-to-Stage: Crazy Mary Lincoln, Over Her Dead Body and Alan Sharpe’s Short Plays
Writer’s choice: Page-to-Stage readings from Saturday, September 3, 2016. We asked our writers to report back on plays which they would like to see fully staged. From Debbie Jackson Crazy Mary Lincoln Written by Jan Tranen & Jay Schwandt Directed by Tracey Elaine Chessum Hanging out at the Kennedy Center for ten-hours of Page-to-Stage didn’t feel […]
Ryan Taylor’s Top 10 shows of 2015
10. The Last Burlesque Produced by Pinky Swear Productions I’m partial to the work of prolific DC playwright Stephen Spotswood (I’ve produced and directed his work myself), and his story of an old-school burlesque troupe struggling to save their theatre features some of the sharpest characters and most layered storytelling of his career. It’s also […]
The Tiny House Plays from Pinky Swear
On a triangular tract of land snug behind a line of row-houses, Northeast DC harbors a secret Garden of Eden—a landscape flush with the fruits of the earth. Roma tomatoes. Lavender. Chard. Thyme. And time is a funny thing. “There’s never enough of it or there is too much,” says Dexter Hamlett as a broken […]
Tiny houses host Pinky Swear’s tiny plays
A tiny revolution has been going on for a couple of years in the Northeast DC’s Stronghold neighborhood. A patch of alley space was transformed into a thoughtful, self-contained community of minimal proportions, with three tiny houses. With the help of architects and others, Brian Levy, Lee Pera, Jay Austin reformed the Evarts Street alleyway […]
Bondage
The man in the pig mask looks over the reservations for your name. He is having difficulties, and is not helped by the fact that he is in handcuffs. “Look harder,” says his mistress, who is wearing a lusty bustier. “Harder.” She smacks him with her riding crop: whappo. “Thank you, mistress,” he says.