Pub Date: Nov. 15th, 2016
Format: Paperback
Pages: 96
Trim Size: 4.5″ x 6.25″
ISBN:  978–0–983547–83–9
Price: $11

Phases of the moon mark the passing of time for two inhabitants of a remote, dreamlike farm. Lua and Dal alternately support and dismantle their co-created reality as they navigate the magical swells of their daily routine. Encyclopedia explores the beauty and uncertainty of relational complexity — how we trust, how we grieve, how we teeter on the edge of an uncertain consensus, and how we ultimately have only the thinness of our agreement with each other to construct and navigate reality. In this play that acts like a poem, this poem that acts like a dream, each character makes her case for an elusive actuality which, when its construction is bared, only highlights the uncertainty that awaits them.

DAL opens her mouth.
A marching band pours out.
A frenzied parade takes over the farm–
Dancers. Fire-eaters. Stilts. Puppets. Juggling. Unicycles.
The world is engulfed for maybe 10 seconds.
Then all the activity disperses as quickly as it appeared.

It is raining again.
DAL is drenched.

LUA’s soup preparation has fast-forwarded to a finish.
A pot of soup simmers on the stove.
LUA serves it into a bowl.

DAL
for the past month
it’s been raining saltwater.

Rachel Jendzejewski is a writer and interdisciplinary artist who works throughout the U.S. and internationally, most often investigating awareness, embodied experience, and the complexities of “community.” She frequently collaborates with dancers, visual artists, musicians, fellow writers, and alleged non-artists to explore new performative vocabularies. Her work has been developed and/or presented by the Walker Art Center, Red Eye Theater, Public Functionary, Padua Playwrights, and Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, among others. She is a Core Writer at The Playwrights’ Center and holds an MFA in Playwriting from Brown University. Learn more at rachelka.com and join her circle of supporters at patreon.com/rachelka.

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