Jenny1538

Nine-year-old Jenny1538 is a perfectionist. She’s going for her sixth attempt to earn her Discovery badge. It’s the only badge she doesn’t have, and her presentation is a sure-fire win—she’s found 11 lost days from the 18th century. A play about identity, loss, and what it means when your outsides don’t match your insides.

45 minutes.

“Kimball’s script is often deliciously disarming, filled with veers and leaps, and as in her other work, she has a particular skill with fragmented, lyrical riffs into the absurd, as when Dominic rattles off a weird litany of “because” (including, memorably, “Because Gwyneth Paltrow cries organic baby tiger tears”).”

— Megan Grumbling, The Portland Phoenix

Setting
Here and now. Since Jenny is giving a presentation to her scout troop, the space could be a church hall, a community center, a basement, or…a theater.

Characters

JENNY. 9. Played by a grown man. Wears a Brownie uniform. Classic overachieving perfectionist.
DOMINIC FRANCONIA. 40s. Sweatpants, tee shirt, sneakers—it’s the best he’s got. He does not have reliable shelter.

Production & Development History

Production, The Players' Ring, 2015
Production, PortFringe, 2014

Also workshopped at Lark Play Development Center.