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Len Jenkin
KRAKEN explores the true-life encounter between legendary American novelists Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1856. Melville, in the midst of a spiritual journey to the Holy Land, stops to…
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A roller-coaster ride through the American scene, from the Fascination Parlor to Leroy Smiles the Crab-boy, and from the movie set to the tattoo parlor to Frankie the Finn. A…
Len Jenkin’s noir fantasy entertainment is a cross between a surreal radio melodrama and wacky comedy filled with music and fantasy. Margo Veil is a young actress whose strange adventures…
Len Jenkin’s surrealistic comedy uses Franz Kafka’s story Ein Landarzt as a point of departure to explore his personal life and literary works. The central journey in A COUNTRY DOCTOR…
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Coconut Joe is looking for the perfect consignment of coconuts for the biscuit factory he works for. His search has taken him to Berlin, where he is double crossed by…
Trapped during a storm in a ferry terminal with no food, no electricity, and no cellular signal, these pilgrims of the night pass the time sharing salacious tales that range…
Subtitled A History of Science (A Chronicle of Folly, Wisdom, and Madness), PORT TWILIGHT has been described as an end-times extraterrestrial vaudeville.Len Jenkin’s dark, whirling comedy, PORT TWILIGHT, follows…
A fantastical Kafkaesque journey through time and space. TIME IN KAFKA is a playful, luminous trip … Len Jenkins’s 90-minute fantasy about a young scholar so in love with the…
Both a riff on lounge acts and a lounge act itself. Time Out calls the show, Enveloping, sad and entirely hilarious, the most fun you’ll ever have watching the American…
In the first play in LIMBO TALES, HIGHWAY, a man suddenly decides to drive to his girlfriend’s house, which is 200 miles away. He becomes obsessed with the thought that…
A kaleidoscopic, surrealistic overview of contemporary America, set forth in the bizarre, highly theatrical style which characterizes this writer’s distinctive voice. Produced by New York’s highly regarded Public Theater, the…
A brilliantly conceived and highly theatrical experience in absurdist drama, in which the audience is taken on a wild and funny metaphysical journey into the fertile imaginations of the diverse…
FIVE OF US deals with the parallel lives of New York tenement dwellers, who live next door to each other but whose paths do not cross until one fateful moment…
Uncle Sam was a novelties salesman who died one night, alone and broke, in a Pittsburgh hotel. But he was also a larger-than-life figure, a mythic hero, to his nephew…
JONAH is a rumination on the story of the man and the sea. Jonah’s a man on the run. He hops a Greyhound to Joppa and then grabs a cabin…
Abraham Zobell is a man like other men. No better, not much worse. But, unlike other men, he has a vital need to lay flowers on an ocean grave before…
Haunting, poetic and achingly tender, the pitch perfect HOW IS IT THAT WE LIVE OR SHAKEY JAKE + ALICE conveys love in a way that will leave you thinking about…
