Reviews for Jarrott Productions Performances
Review #1 of 2: THE FATHER by Jarrott Productions
by Brian Paul Scipione
Published on February 13, 2018
The audience was so wowed at the show that I attended that they were still holding their breath during the beginning of the curtain call, taking a beat themselves to fully process what they had just seen. And understandably so.
Travelling to a new place can be nerve-wracking. Certainly, it’s the worth the adventure and the thrill of seeing new things and meeting new people, but there’s always an underlining sense of unease. That is why hotels are so important in our culture, just as the village inn was thousands of years ago. No matter how your day goes--exhausting walks, strange foods, the not-quite-perfect communication with the locals--you can retreat to your hotel room. It is …
Review #2 of 2: The Father by Jarrott Productions
by Michael Meigs
Published on February 13, 2018
Director Rick Roemer and the cast create an engrossing, complex story unfolded, almost literally, in compelling rhythm. David Jarrott's performance as the beleaguered father will stay with you for a long time.
No novice to theatre, David Jarrott established his eponymous stage company in 2015 to produce Freud's Last Session with himself in the title role. Nothing wrong with that; there's a long and honorable tradition of actor-entrepreneurs gathering companies about them as they select dramatic works they can star in. Jarrott's done a good job of it, too, in choosing works that are smart and intelligent (adjectives that are not exact synonyms), recruiting really gifted talent, …
Review: Prodigal Son by Jarrott Productions
by Michael Meigs
Published on September 29, 2017
Sam Domino is the reason to go see PRODIGAL SON, for his focus, breath-taking mastery of Bronx dialect, astonishing physicality and and body consciousness.
Sam Domino is the reason to go see Prodigal Son, staged by Jarrott Productions at the cozy Trinity Street Theatre on the fourth floor of downtown's First Baptist Church at 901 Trinity Street. Domino has the brooding power and presence you might associate with James Dean, the young Brando or Paul Newman. Moody, isolated, struggling to find a moral compass in an alien environment, his character James Quinn incarnates the outsider teen who probably …
Review: The Herd by Jarrott Productions
by Brian Paul Scipione
Published on April 15, 2017
Though I was expecting a comedy I was treated to something better, something more deft, taut as a tendon, gritty and very endearing. The humorous lines popped and sizzled when they came.
“The quality of mercy is not strain'd, it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest; it blesseth him that gives and him that takes.” This quote is brought to mind several times during Jarrott Production’s Texas premiere of The Herd, a play about the stress-inundated lives of a family raising a very disabled child. And it’s no surprise Kinnear has chosen it. Not only is Portia's …
Review: THE PRICE by Arthur Miller, Jarrott Productions
by Michael Meigs
Published on October 01, 2016
To whom do these things belong? That question is literal but rapidly becomes metaphorical. Each is condemned to his discontents, Miller tells us; the price is simply what you're willing to pay.
The setting for The Price is heavily symbolic, an attic living space abandoned for sixteen years since the death of its occupant. The half-covered pieces of heavy furniture, the wardrobe with its mirror reflecting emptiness, empty frames, bric-a-brac, a sagging armchair, a piano bench at stage center without a piano, a passageway to an unseen bedroom -- designer Desiderio Roybal avoids clutter but embraces the miscellany of memory. There's a price for all of this, …
Review: Freud's Last Session by Jarrott Productions
by David Glen Robinson
Published on September 26, 2015
The play collects grand thoughts from people in an important time and place and fossilizes them beautifully in the amber of this Jarrott Productions show.
Freud’s Last Session, a one-act play by Mark St. Germain, has opened at Trinity Street Theatre in downtown Austin. This production of Jarrott Productions stars producer David Jarrott as psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud and Tyler Jones as writer-philosopher C.S. Lewis.They enact a fictional meeting between the two intellectuals at Freud’s office in London on September 3, 1939, the day Britain and its allies declared war on Germany following Hitler’s invasion of Poland.Freud had relocated to London earlier …