Wild Women

Imagine lactating till you’re fifty, and staying pregnant for two years. Or, at the other end of the scale, think about having a dodgy one-night stand and, just two weeks later, you’re a proud mother. Think it’s hard being a woman?

Spare a thought for the poor lioness. I defy any woman to go out, catch a zebra, come home and have sex fifty times, while still finding time to play with the kids, bath, and get a good night’s sleep.
Just be glad you’re a human …

Karen Jeynes is a 26-year-old writer with an unfortunate tendency towards comedy. Her plays include Laying Blame, sky too big, Don’t Mention Sex, Kiss Kiss, I’ll have what she’s having, Go Home Affairs and the multi award-winning Everybody Else (is Fucking Perfect). Her radio credits include an adaptation of Thomas Rapakgadi’s The Purse is Mine, a radio drama series for Safm with Nkuli Sibeko, entitled Office Hours, and You Can’t Make Me. Her teenage novel Jacques Attack (also co-authored with Nkuli Sibeko) was published in 2004 as part of the Siyagruva Series for New Africa Books, and Flipside co-authored with Eeshaam September for the same series was released last year. She compiled and edited FAB: Mother City Queer Projects published by Umuzi. When she gets bored she writes for magazines. She also teaches scriptwriting online, and in person to teenagers all over the country. She has been working on her epic play, The Son of God for many years, and may complete it by 2010, although unfortunately it has nothing to do with soccer. In her spare time she runs writing workshops and goes to committee meetings. She lives in Cape Town with her (mostly) fabulous husband and two (mostly) adorable sons.

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