The Transfiguration of Benno Blimpie

By Albert Innaurato

Directed by Mark Sickler

Some of us, it seems, exist outside of nature and no one knows where we fit. Nature has her claws in all of you but not in we who exist outside her. You have your claws in us.

Can intelligence, sensitivity, and a deep appreciation of nature and beauty be enough to combat the ugliness of despair, loneliness and longing for acceptance and love? In simpler terms, is beauty really only skin deep? The Transfiguration of Benno Blimpie tells the story of a 500lb young man who can no longer face these questions. Through monologue and memory we learn of his tragic upbringing, and ultimately his resolve to eat himself to death.
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