Room For A Pony is a one hour play that Andrea has workshopped featuring Nicole Underhay, Bridgette Wareham and Craig Francis Power. 

Alexa spends her days verbally sparring with her pet parrot, sexting and engaging in late night rendezvous with strange men. As Alexa and her parrot become engulfed in a mutually shared self-hatred, their verbal and physical relationship escalates. At times uncomfortable and exhausting, Room for A Pony explores transcending sex and death. Is there hope somewhere outside of the noise of technology, and a potential apocalypse?

The first draft of Room for a Pony was created at the Arts & Culture Centre Playwrights Unit with Artist-in-Residence Megan Gail Coles in 2016-17. In 2017, it was selected by the Gros Morne Playwrights Residency headed by Playwrights Workshop Montreal and Le Centre des auteurs dramatiques (CEAD) in partnership with Creative Gros Morne, Memorial University of Newfoundland and the Cole Foundation. In 2018, it had its first reading at Playwrights' Workshop Montréal, followed by the Women's Work Festival in St. John's. In March of 2018, the performance was workshopped in St. John's at The Space to explore sonic and visual elements of the script with the same cast as well as Lois Brown (Director) Pat Dempsey (Lighting Designer) and Alexander MacSween (Sound Designer). This workshop was financially supported by ArtsNL. A second workshop was supported by the City of St. John’s and Arts NL at the Barbara Barrett Theatre at the St. John’s Arts and Culture Centre in September 2019.

The play intersects digital media, performance and live sound. It explores the confusion and loneliness of sexting culture, and the anxiety it creates in women. Framed against a looming apocalypse, Room for a Pony is about finding hope in the age of technology.