This is the invitation -- a kind of dare really -- that Jenny Magnus proffers...In these plays Magnus asks us to meet her intelligence her wit the naked soul of her unknowables with our own because in her work the question is the quest. Like Brecht she uses music text broad characters very few props. Her people are curious and smart and very funny. They are always out on a limb divulging something terribly embarrassing. They use a lot of words or very few. Metaphors are often over-the-top but pa