Three men in a New York City Off-Track Betting establishment.
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.—Anonymous
v\The story is about three immigrants from different countries who meet each other in the world of OTB.
It represents three different aspects: American immigration, American identity and the American dream, producer Tom Donahue said in a statement. It is based on the play which premiered in 2002, about the loss of liberty in the Bush Era, and many of those issues are relevant today.
