Performance
“I liked everything about this “Lear,” not least its sylvan outdoor setting, but one thing I mustn’t forget to single out for special praise is…Ms. Jadow… is horrifically evil without stooping to caricature. You believe unhesitatingly in the dramatic truth of their viciousness, underlined with dark irony by the birdsong from the nearby trees…”
Terry Teachout, Wall Street Journal
Acting
Press
Jennie Jadow is an actress with a multi-decade performance career, currently based in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts. Jennie has performed in numerous musicals and plays in regional theatres in the Berkshires and in New York. Often sought after for her physical comedy skills, Jennie is also deeply interested in pushing the boundaries of our complex emotional selves. With rare fluency in both humor and drama, Jennie melds the two to create fully embodied stories.
As his younger, crazier, sister Bélise the actress Jennie M. Jadow delivered the most wonderful manic performance imaginable. This character never hears what is being said, but only what she imagines must have been said. Mostly she hears that she is loved and desired, and not just for her intellect but for her body as well. Never have I seen an audience so dearly want to applaud an exit, every one of her exits, and yet feel the need to resist their own reactions. Dorothy Loudon, that superb clown who once took sixteen minutes to cross a small corridor on stage - perhaps seven feet of space - and only succeeded when the applause and laughter began to wane a bit, could not have been a more perfect actress for this role than Jadow proves to be. Her comic gifts are well displayed in this role.
