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About Jens
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Full Length Plays:
Thy Fearful SymmetryA Tragedy for Modern ManPower emanates from the barrels of guns and pussies. --Hunter S. Thompson As Progress advances and women gain ascendancy in the West, and men are left to choose between submissive domesticity or vengeful misogyny, is there, perhaps--a third way? Two Berkeley students plot to sexually blackmail the new female Senator from California, who has a taste for younger men. A brutal, shocking play. right... crikey... it's got everything... really full on! --an Australian director Request a review copy now! Very Skinny Peoplea Black Comedy in Three ActsWhen the Grim Reaper of Weight Loss hits town, you know you better run and hide. He's come to rid the world of Fat. First stop? Fat Camp. We are coming, we are coming, and no one shall be spared. We shall thin you, we shall slim you, no excuses, no exceptions. Fat Ones go in, turn the key-- we'll make you skinny yet! "Funny, original, and refreshingly irreverent... It's nice to see someone pushing the envelope." --Chicago Dramatists reviewer An outrageous satire on the modern obsession with Weight Loss. UPDATE: Recently shortlisted for the Monash National Open Playwrights' Competition! Request a review copy now! Ariadne's LamentA One Woman, One Act Tragic MonologueLoosely based on Catullus 64. Is this how you repay my love? With this? This beach? These: sands are all that I possess? And now you dip your paddle in the deep. No wind; no sail; not a breath of cloud: Such was your haste to leave 'fore I awoke. And now you leave me here to die? Alone? That night shall fall and beasts shall shred my flesh? Ariadne, left to die upon her desert island, wakes to find her lover fled, awash in virgin blood she gave the night before. She helped her lover, Theseus, to kill the mighty Minotaur, and so betrayed her country, Crete, and Father, King, and Mother, hearth and home. Ariadne, walking corpse, calls upon the vengeful Furies Three, and Zeus himself pays heed. Production History: (ten-minute version) Melbourne Writers Theatre: staged reading, August 2005 Request a review copy now! Family Planninga Tragedy in Two ActsA dying man who wants a child. His pregnant partner? Booked for an abortion. Confront your hidden fears. "Highly provocative... raises numerous ethical and philosophical questions." --Australian National Playwrights' Centre (ANPC reviewer) Production History: Parnassus' Den: staged reading, March 2005 The Storeroom Theatre: staged reading, December 2004. You can download the flyer here. Request a review copy now! |