Abstract
All during the month of May The New Rep stage was the site of a small miracle. Jane Martin's " Jack and Jill", a two character script that when I read it seemed to be a mere patchwork affair-- adroit and literate but dismissable; a shallow opus stitched together from skits using the most familiar and/or faddish fragments of "modern male-female relationships" and threaded through with misogyny--- is performed by Cate Damon and Marc Carver with such sureness of tone, such depth of commitment and lightness of touch, that it comes across the footlights as a kind of minor masterpiece. Starting from type-characters who as written are defined as intelligent and self-aware-- perhaps merely in order to make plausible all the witty formulations and clever quips about the minefield courtship and marriage can be in these fraught times -- and taking seriously the comic dictum that it's easy for people surrounded by psychobabble to be too clever and self-monitoring for their own good, director Rick Lombardo encouraged his actors to work through the laughs and on to the lessons.
Director: Rick Lombardo
Author: Jane Martin
Performer: Cate Damon
Performer: Marc Carver
Asst. Stage Manager: Jennifer A. Cleary