The Antelope Party / Eric John Meyer.

First edition.

New York : Broadway Play Publishing Inc, 2018.

©2018

89 pages ; 22 cm

BEIN 2023 1536: Paperbound. From the Broadway Play Publishing Collection.

"Brony culture (captured in the 2012 documentary Bronies: The Extremely Unexpected Adult Fans of My Little Pony) is the jumping-off point for Eric John Meyer's The Antelope Party. But Meyer's story jumps the fences and heads for the open range of American populism and paranoia. It's set in a Rust Belt Pennsylvania mill town--the kind of place where one expects the local diner to be stuffed with a mix of hardscrabble former steelworkers and national reporters interrogating them about their voting preferences over bacon and eggs. It's a place where the misfit brony men and 'pegasisters' who gather every week to share stories and play games based on the Hasbro series walk warily outdoors, their 'cutie marks' covered up, lest they be jumped by the intolerant. If we've learned one thing about how fascism works (and brother, are we learning a lot), it's that elevating tribal grievances over harmony and creating a hated Other is the path to power. So when Maggie, the glamorous 'Twilight Sparkle' of the gang, twists their arms (or forelegs) to join with her father's 'Antelope Party' (a neighborhood watch group with darker political aspirations), things take a sharp turn for the allegorical."--Page 4 of cover

English

July 20, 2023