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What is it: A play about children who've been put in a hospital & given diagnoses they do not understand.

Perfect for: Experimental weirdos who wonder how a maximal performance of the piece would handle stage directions that include ‘fire eating through the whole building’.

Jesi Bender’s Kinderkrankenhaus opens with a small child being left in the care of doctors from the Eugenics Record Office, who diagnose them with a disorder of communication & comprehension. Suffering in the gap between language and existence, the children of Kinderkrankenhaus find themselves subjected to the power of an institutional medical praxis that discounts the possibility of thinking beyond language. As purgatorial as Waiting for Godot, but with an ending laden with burn-it-all-down revolutionary impulse.

Check it out on Sagging Meniscus Press.