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Capital Festival, Washington DC

2009

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

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Les Kurkendaal, actor and monologist, finds daytime employment as a program director at Jenny Craig. In this capacity, he does intake interviews with new Jenny Craig customers, all of whom are women. What a break for Les! In this new job, he’ll surely discover tons of material that he’ll be able to use in his monologues! Except - he doesn’t. His customers come to Jenny Craig because they want to lose weight. They are seventy pounds overweight, or forty-five pounds overweight, or not overweight at all but wanting to lose because they are seeking to land or maintain jobs as game-show models and the like. Some of them stay on the program and some of them backslide. Some refuse to exercise. And so on. Like the guy who runs Hair Club for Men, Les is not only in the Jenny Craig business, he’s also a customer. He resolves to lose twenty pounds when he discovers that his derriere has grown - or, as he puts it more colorfully, that he is being attacked by his big angry booty. He proceeds on his quest, interrupted (he loves his Taco Bell) for reasons both good and bad
- Tim Treanor, dctheatrescene.com