cover photo by Emily Jenkins
this collection contains three full-length plays:
A COUNTRY DOCTOR
LIKE I SAY
PILGRIMS OF THE NIGHT
A COUNTRY DOCTOR:
"The central journey in A COUNTY
DOCTOR—Kafka's physician anxiously pushing through a raging
blizzard to reach a dying patient--keeps overtaking the other travellers, giving them nightmares. The visceral treats of the
piece are many and fine. Makes you want to stick your thumb out
and hop aboard for the wild ride."
New York Post
"Jenkin, over the course of the
play's seventy-five minutes, give us virtually the entire Kafka
short story in sequential fashion. And he turns the story into a
comment on modern man's existential condition through the Guest,
and most interestingly, on Kafka's own psychological-sexual
torment as reflected in his writings. Its an
intellectual-literary tour de force of amazing
density."
Star and Tribune, Minneapolis
7 actors, or more
LIKE I SAY:
"LIKE IS SAY, a new play by one of
America's leading writers, is set at the seaside Hotel Splendide,
where a peculiar group of travelers try to make some sense of
life and get ahold of some ready cash. This mysterious and comic
story takes us to the edge of America and the end of the
line."
Royal Court Theatre, London
"Len Jenkin has an unusual talent for
reaching into the shadowy places in the human psyche and coming
up with evocative images--like thrusting an arm into a barrel of
black slime and coming up with a handful of gold nuggets."
Journal American, Seattle
4 M, 4 F, or more
PILGRIMS OF THE NIGHT
"In the six tales of PILGRIMS OF THE
NIGHT, and in the framing narrative, Jenkin explores many of the
raw nerve ends in our society; the deep need to believe an
absolute, while at the same time reveling in the gratification
of the present; the difference between titillation and
satisfaction; the bizarre nature of reality; and the real nature
of the bizarre."
Times, Seattle
"Jenkin's PILGRIMS OF THE NIGHT is a
wonderful combination of innocence and guile, primitive impulses
and sophisticated craft. Zombies, a headless woman, an island
paradise, an erotically frustrated fry cook, a psychopathic
neurosurgeon, a silver fairy, and a formerly live deer all make
memorable impressions."
Post-Intelligencer, Seattle
4 M, 3 F
PLAYS BY LEN JENKIN
I S B N 0-88145-158-4: $16.95