Poor Folk's Pleasure - Softcover

Jenkin, Len

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0881452998 ISBN 13: 9780881452990

Publisher: Broadway Play Publishing, Incorporated, 2022

Synopsis

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 the human psyche and coming up with evocative images." -Journal American (Seattle) "Jenkin's plays have plenty of plot and delicious language, but the transience of experience is the main theme that runs through Jenkin's work. He manipulates theatrical illusions with a playful manner that recalls Jorge Luis Borges, to disguise meditations on mortality." -Village Voice (New York) "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

About this title

About the Author:

Len Jenkin is a university professor, playwright, screenwriter and three-time Obie award winner, whose work has appeared in theaters across the United States. His plays for children include a very scary adaptation of H.G. Wells's "The Invisible Man, "and a stage version of Beverly Cleary's "Ramona Quimby. The Secret Life of Billie's Uncle Myron" is his first book for children.

Review:

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 the human psyche and coming up with evocative images. --Journal American (Seattle)

Jenkin's plays have plenty of plot and delicious language, but the transience of experience is the main theme that runs through Jenkin's work. He manipulates theatrical illusions with a playful manner that recalls Jorge Luis Borges, to disguise meditations on mortality. --Village Voice (New York)

Len Jenkin has an unusual talent for reaching into shadowy places in the human psyche and coming up with evocative images. --Journal American (Seattle)

Jenkin's plays have plenty of plot and delicious language, but the transience of experience is the main theme that runs through Jenkin's work. He manipulates theatrical illusions with a playful manner that recalls Jorge Luis Borges, to disguise meditations on mortality. --Village Voice (New York)

About this edition

• Publisher: Broadway Play Publishing, Incorporated
• Publication date: 2022
• ISBN 10: 0881452998
• ISBN 13: 9780881452990
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 42