Tallahassee

By Len Jenkin and Mac Wellman

Tallahassee--Mac Wellman and Len Jenkin's play with music which premiered in 2001--transplants Ovid's life and Metamorphoses to something like Florida.

Exiled to backwater Alligator Alley, with no recourse but perambulation and Belles Lettres, Ovid's path crosses with Bob Cerillos, who's been changed into a woman for not paying his parking tickets, and "Bone" Mizell, a local cowboy. They're all headed to Tallahassee, through a landscape of horrors and wonders. Whoop Now Ovid's a woman too. People can be changed into anything, far beyond the usual rivers and trees--lawn furniture, ideas, lights on the ocean. Meanwhile, the governor muses, Why not cut social services, schools, and the arts? Why not tax the air we breathe? The devil's in the kitchen, cooking up a stew. Daddy's in the alley, and he's doing something new. Sister wanders by the tracks, out on the edge of town. God is in the bushes, and the night is coming down. So this is Tallahassee.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H7X9XXJ7
• ISBN13: 9798992283990
• Release Date: August 2027
• Publisher: 53rd State Press
• Length: 130 Pages