LIBROS DEL AUTOR: len jenkin

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  • How Is It That We Live
    Len Jenkin
       “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 what it means for two hearts to be entwined for the brief flash of the human life span.   It’s as if someone forgot to tell playwright Len Jenkin that new plays are not supposed to be this good…   The story and struct...
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    17,44 €

  • Jonah
    Len Jenkin
    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 on the ocean-bound Carnival Princess. Drinking away his sorrows at the ship’s Grass Skirt Grill, the lounge band Sheila and the Lovetones plays him into a stupor before he tumbles into the waves. Len Jenkin’s JONAH is a contemporary retelling ...
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    17,35 €

  • Abraham’s Zobell’s Home Movie, Final Reel
    Len Jenkin
    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 it’s too late. Though he’s recovering from a recent heart attack, Abe rejects the pleas of his wife and the advice of his doctors, rips out his IV, and sets out on a pilgrimage to the sea. Along the way, he encounters ghosts and m...
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    17,41 €

  • My Uncle Sam
    Len Jenkin
    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 - who now seeks to discover his uncle's true story. His quest is a quixotic and picaresque one, involving a seductive nightclub singer who promises to marry Sam if he can locate his ne'er-do-well brother (who absc...
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    16,10 €

  • American Notes
    Len Jenkin
    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 play employs brilliantly imaginative avante-garde techniques to highlight both the dreams - and delusions - which infuse and motivate our modern world. Th...
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    17,26 €

  • Dark Ride
    Len Jenkin
    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 characters whose bizarre stories are deftly interwoven into the fabric of the play. DARK RIDE is comprised of a series of vignettes involving characters who, at first, appear to bear no ...
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    17,26 €

  • Five Of Us
    Len Jenkin
    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, which spells disaster for them all. One apartment is occupied by Mark, a young writer who churns out pornography while planning the 'big novel' he will someday write, and his live-in girlfriend, Lee, an anthropology grad...
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    17,50 €

  • Limbo Tales
    Len Jenkin
    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 each car that passes may be his girlfriend coming to visit him - and as he begins to lose touch with time and place he becomes convinced that he has moved back to another century, another civilization. In the sh...
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    18,16 €

  • The Dream Express
    Len Jenkin
    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 Dream disintegrate.''Annie and I saw DREAM EXPRESS last night. I absolutely LOVED the writing, I was blown away. To my ear it is simultaneously sublime and gritty. Both lyric and comic. Cynical and romantic. Da...
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    17,60 €

  • Like I Say
    Len Jenkin
    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 a beautiful woman and ends up as a prisoner in a nuclear waste plant. He escapes and makes his way to Venice. He boards a ship but it sinks. But Joe manages to escape on a life raft with a Pirate Queen. They are w...
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    17,80 €

  • Time In Kafka
    Len Jenkin
    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 work of Franz Kafka that he imagines the famous writer's spirit has appeared to tell him the whereabouts of a lost manuscript. What ensues is a poetic and often hilarious meditation on the mystical c...
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    15,85 €

  • Port Twilight
    Len Jenkin
    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 several storylines as they trail throughout the fantasy city of the title. All of the stories involve what might be called decoding messages and 'alien contact.'...
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    15,85 €

  • Margo Veil
    Len Jenkin
    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 lead her into an ever-changing landscape of dream and reality.'Len Jenkin not only has a vivid imagination, but he also has an artist’s command of his craft.' -New York Times'Len Jenkin has an...
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    17,17 €

  • Kraken
    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 visit with his old friend Hawthorne, now the American consul in Liverpool. As they spend the evening together, they discuss and confront their, fears, failures, things of this world...
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    17,35 €

  • Poor Folk's Pleasure
    Len Jenkin
    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 concert for actors. 'Len Jenkin not only has a vivid imagination, but he also has an artist's command of his craft.' -New York Times 'Len Jenkin has an unusual talent for reaching into shadowy places in ...
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    16,70 €

  • Pilgrims Of The Night
    Len Jenkin
    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 from adultery to a biblical flood. '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,...
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    16,10 €

  • A Country Doctor
    Len Jenkin
    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 - Kafka’s physician anxiously pushing through a raging blizzard to reach a dying patient - keeps overtaking the other travelers, giving them nightmares. The visceral treats of the piece are many...
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    17,05 €