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Inky, a young nanny caring for the children of a self-centered, pretentious couple bent on having it all, just happens to have an intense infatuation with Muhammad Ali. You’ll find her jabbing and sparring as she models the one and only great Muhammad Ali. But this play isn’t about boxing. Inky encompasses a complex array of traits: soft-spoken, maternal, intuitive; yet also driven, conniving, and ambitious. Yet her infatuation with Muhammad Ali and with boxing skews her outlook on life and her interactions with those around her. Inky’s skewed outlook on life leads to a lot of laughs. If you are a young girl and Inky is your nanny, you can be sure that other kids won’t pick on you more than once. But Inky doesn’t stop there, helping a young girl protect herself. She, like her idol, wants to fight! She wants to better her life and the lives of those she cares about, and she’s not afraid to use blackmail to achieve her goals. Inky Pittsburgh Theater off the wall Theater Abby Quattro...

“Striking…Inky packs a punch.” – Newsday Rinne Groff, playwright of several plays and musicals that have been produced and commissioned by Yale Rep, Playwrights Horizons, and the Manhattan Theatre Club, among others, is the playwright of our upcoming production Inky. Abby Quatro - photo by Heather Mull Inky is about a love-starved Manhattan couple bent on ‘having it all’ during the high rolling, morally skewed 1980s. Some might say they suffer an aversion of sorts when it comes to parenting. However, they are not only forced to face their limitations, they must learn the importance of fighting back after taking in a young Slavic nanny to care for their nine-year-old daughter and infant son. Young as she is, her years date her beyond innocence. In this dark comedy, Inky might just help you discover the fighter in you! Learn more or purchase tickets.  Rinne, a graduate of Yale (B.A) and NYU (M.F.A), teaches in the Department of Dramatic Writing at NYU Tisch School of...