Sun. 8/8: Babies in Jugs and Wannabe Bugs
JUBILANT THICKET
poetry + artways + local spirits
at Molly’s Bookstore on second Sundays
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featuring puppetry & storytelling by C. KENNEDY
and
poetry by KIM GEK LIN SHORT
Sunday, August 8th
7:00 pm
Molly’s Bookstore (1010 S. 9th St. Phila, PA 19147 in the Italian Market)
Drinks for a small donation
Open reading to follow
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C. KENNEDY is a playwright, actress, puppeteer and orientation and mobility specialist currently located in Philadelphia. She wrote/directed and produced her first full length stage play, “Rails,” for the ‘09 Philadelphia Fringe Festival, and will produce her second work, “Water Bears in Space,” for the ‘11 Fringe. She is currently in rehearsals for “Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens,” an adaptation of the first draft of Peter Pan, to be performed in August.
Jug-Baby, part I, introduces the audience to Jug-Baby, a bonsai-kid grown in a jug by its destitute parents. Toys and puppets bring the first part of this woefully whimsical fable to life as we follow Jug-Baby from its humble beginnings in a jug to halls of the rich, to one of the most infamous brothels in the country. Part fairy tale, part autobiography, Jug-Baby is one of a kind.
KIM GEK LIN SHORT is the daughter of a Scots-Irish geophysicist from the midwest and a Straits-Chinese tenpin champion from Singapore. She is the author of The Bugging Watch & Other Exhibits (Tarpaulin Sky Press), and the chapbooks The Residents (dancing girl press) and Run (Rope-a-Dope Press). Her next book, China Cowboy, will be published by Tarpaulin Sky Press in 2011. She lives with her family in Philadelphia.
