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Eventually Samantha finds herself on a journey, both physical and emotional, that leads her to discover what having a home and being loved really mean to her. INDOR\/OUTDOR is an allegory about the difficulties and joys of all manner of relationships. Genuine kindness - the type that isn't coated in mawkishness or undercut with irony - is about as rare in the theater as a talking cat. Kenny Finkle's INDOR\/OUTDOR has both . it's the improbably story of a kitten who follows the path of so many heroes by leaving home to find herself. It is also a clever, big-hearted comedy that makes it easy to feel good. Finkle gives his central characters rich detail, letting comedy arise naturally from their interactions. More than making jokes, he's crafting a story. INDOR\/OUTDOR is less about cats than about glorious, permanent love. -Mark Blankenship, Variety . What a wonderful treat . to discover . a refreshing and clever play made more, well, 'purrrrfect' . Finkle's story offers a crafty humor and a few lessons in life to be gleaned from it, proving it ultimately touched by a poet . -Travis Michael Holder, Backstage Samantha is a cat with a story to tell. It's a good story - poignant, witty and even a little wacky at times. And though it's a cat's story, it's human at its core, which makes Kenny Finkle's new play INDOR\/OUTDOR so enjoyable . -David Cameron, The Ithaca Journal","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50372718133521,"sku":"CIN0881453307G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0881453307.jpg?v=1750788063"},{"product_id":"thousand-years-book-kenny-finkle-9780881456011","title":"A Thousand Years","description":"A THOUSAND YEARS is a fantastical comicbook-bright flight of fancy through time examining the enduring power of love. After a terrible accident, Miriam's husband David falls into a coma. Miriam leaves the hospital to clear her head and is abducted. She spends the next 1,000 years trying to get back to David. Obstacle after obstacle abound. At some point Miriam realizes she has one true enemy - the evil She Doctor. The She Doctor may or may not be Fate, Nature and\/or Time. She meets many allies along the way. Like Jackson, a hermit who lives in a lighthouse and Nella who lost her girlfriend 500 years earlier and is lost at sea. To save David, Miriam must engage in a battle of the soul with the She Doctor. But can she win?","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53429866889489,"sku":"NIN9780881456011","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780881456011.jpg?v=1776418339"},{"product_id":"transatlantica-book-kenny-finkle-9780881457452","title":"Transatlantica","description":"\u003cp\u003ePart murder mystery, part unrequited romance, and part absurdist debacle about the denial and transcendence of death, TRANSATLANTICA tells the story of Dr Reginald Reinhold, whose psychoanalytic session with an eccentric patient, Ilyria (of the land of Ilyria), is interrupted by his wife with news that she is dying. By coincidence, Ilyria too is dying, as is every subsequent visitor to his home--a parade of increasingly eccentric guests. With death dancing at every door, Dr Reinhold is forced to confront his own peculiar relationship with mortality. The setting is the parlor of Dr Reinhold's mansion (festooned with mythical taxidermy and curious artifacts) on the shores of the fantastic continent of Transatlantica, a topsy-turvy world where gardens are planted with cake and lovers grow into trees.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e You have to admire a venturesome spirit like Kenny Finkle, the young author of TRANSATLANTICA. The play.is a lunatic fable that considers love and death and fate in a series of ever more preposterous iterations. Meant to be Dadaist or surreal, it's the kind of show that consciously walks the line between purposeful wit and meaningless idiocy, that wants to make you laugh at its zany nonsense and reflect upon it philosophically as well.\u003cbr\u003e Bruce Weber, The New York Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e It's hard to adequately praise a show as good as TRANSATLANTICA, because running down a list of all the things that are entertaining and brilliant about it spoil the surprise of discovery, and part of the sheer joy of experiencing this show is not having any idea what's coming next. It's only minor hyperbole to say that TRANSATLANTICA has everything that is good and true about theatre (genius dialogue, characters randomly breaking into song, melodramatic deaths, sword fights, etc). It is, simply, the best show I've seen this year.\u003cbr\u003e Danny Bowes, nytheatre.com\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53429868462353,"sku":"NIN9780881457452","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]},{"product_id":"penelope-of-ithaca-book-kenny-finkle-9780881456073","title":"Penelope Of Ithaca","description":"Combining the Greek myth of Penelope awaiting the return of her husband, Odysseus, with modern tales of life in Ithaca, New York, Kenny Finkle uses his renowned sense of whimsy and humanity to explore our need to be loved. . a new play is the lifeblood of a thriving theater, and Ithaca has been especially blessed of late with new plays. Finkle has set the bar high. To capture some piece of the spirit of a place and its inhabitants, while reworking a well-worn story, pulling apart notions of heroism, bravery, sacrifice, faithfulness and love this one story has come to embody . All this is sketched lightly, almost breezily, for it is the launching pad for Finkle's deeper purpose. What does it mean to wait, to be a woman with an M I A husband, raising their son? To become defined by a first, all encompassing love that never had time to mature? To be wound up tight against feeling, against even acknowledging loss, grief? As the older Penelope negotiates these questions, the play takes on depth, color, urgency . When finally it all begins to unravel, the breaking flood of desire, hurt and hope she displays is breathtaking. Her partner in this dance is the man not chosen . Their ebb and flow as a couple . is subtle, mercurial and enchanting.  The play] glimmers with many facets of beauty and a smart elucidation of the awful requirements of love. -Ross Haarstad, Lansing Star A beautiful modern romance, PENELOPE OF ITHACA explores the complexities of time-tested love. With her soldier husband lost at war, Penelope's loyalty is put to the test as she struggles to reconcile her undying love for Odysseus with the uniquely human need to be loved in the here and now. -Stephanie Miller, Lansing Star","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53490230460689,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53490230984977,"sku":"NIN9780881456073","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780881456073.jpg?v=1777732500"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-kenny-finkle.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}