Jennie & The Cockroach

By Evie Chandler

June/July 2025, Oxford Playhouse & Etcetera Theatre

‘Doll traps bug in room with her in the pre-apocalypse … I wonder what Kafka would make of all this.’

Forty-nine minutes and thirty-six seconds until the end of the world. Alone in her bedroom, Jennie kidnaps a cockroach to try and leave something, anything, of her story behind.

As the clock ticks down, Jennie ponders family, her transition, lost friends, and what it means to finally want to live as the world crumbles.

Scratch Night showing at Oxford Playhouse & Work In Progress at Etcetera Theatre.