“Kinderkrankenhaus is a play of agency. Of how agency is given and un-given. The agency of children. The agency of a word. This or it? Are they the same thing? In Kinderkrankenhaus, Jesi Bender provides a new manual for the words, ahem, worlds, that are allowed, and how to allow them anyway. ‘Isn’t everything made visible through me?’ Bender asks, answers.” —Dalton Day, author of Exit, Pursued

“With this bold new piece of hybrid playwriting, Jesi Bender deftly choreographs the traumas of abandonment (familial & societal) alongside the treasures of youth. These lines will pull you in, but like Kinderkrankenhaus’s stage, Bender’s words are edged with sparks. Let them warn and warm you alike.” —Tyler Crumrine, editor of Plays Inverse Press