Your Wife’s Dead Body
Note
Not yet published.Description
A play about relationships, the nature of self, and what may or may not remain of us when we leave this life behind. In the near future, Jane takes advantage of a new AI technology that would extend her lifespan … even if she’s not around to see it for herself. YOUR WIFE’S DEAD BODY asks us to consider the new and difficult questions humans may face as new technologies emerge.
Production Info
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Press Quotes
“As today’s population engages deeper and deeper with AI and technology, Jenny Ledel goes one step further … [YOUR WIFE’S DEAD BODY] offers up the idea of AI as a beneficial tool that fuses sentimentality, health and perhaps a question of ethics, albeit with good intentions … Jane, who has been diagnosed with cancer … stands alone on the pristine white stage interviewed by an unseen voice giving her both instructions for a variety of physical acts and an array of questions to gain insight to Jane. Ledel’s story shifts gears when … Jackson, Jane’s husband, [enters] … His explosive entry is a revealing one as the character is taken aback by seeing his wife. Only this time it’s, let’s say Jane 2.0. It’s here we learn that Jane has passed but her body has been claimed by a replicant version ordered from The Lazarus Project. The story unfolds in parallels where Ledel gives both Janes — the original amidst her increasingly frustrating interview process and 2.0’s good-hearted but clunky interactions in the real world with her husband and at times, his friend Dan … [The play is] provocative while also tender, but moreso, it felt like a thinkpiece set to the stage. This wasn’t a love story per se, but Ledel [gives us] us a complicated muse on keeping love alive and the implications.” —Rich Lopez, The Dallas Voice
“Gripping … [The play is] a case study in what makes us human and how hard it is to pin down.” —Manuel Mendoza, The Dallas Morning News
“[A] chilling, sharp, and mesmerizing drama.” —Arnold Wayne Jones, Sharp Critic
Author
Jenny LedelJenny is an actor living in Dallas, TX where she is a company member at Kitchen Dog Theatre and an Artistic Associate at Second Thought Theatre. Her film and television credits include Karma Police, Spider Veins, One Tree Hill, King Judith, and Howler. Her theatrical credits include Trinity Shakespeare Festival, WaterTower Theatre, Theatre Three, Second Thought Theatre, Texas Shakespeare Festival, The Undermain Theatre, The Dallas Museum of Art, The Dallas Theatre Center and Shakespeare Dallas. Jenny is a multiple recipient of the DFW Critics Forum Award for Best Actress as well as a playwright. She also is a voiceover actress voicing anime roles on Fire Force, Fairy Tail, My Hero Academia, and more. Her play HELP was given a staged reading at Kitchen Dog Theatre's New Works Festival. Her first world premiere performance of YOUR WIFE'S DEAD BODY occurred July 2025 at Second Thought Theatre. She holds a BFA in Theatre Performance from Baylor University.
Book Information
| Publisher | BPPI |
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| ISBN | 9798888560839 |
Special Notes
World Premiere given by Second Thought Theatre, Dallas, TX in July 2025
by special arrangement with Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NYC
www.broadwayplaypublishing.com
