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Three wonderful women take on the central roles of King Lear’s Daughters. Jennie M. Jadow is a lovely Regan….

Lear’s Daughters, Goneril (MaConnia Chesser) and Regan (Jennie M. Jadow) work in concert to deceive him, their husbands a little open-mouthed at their duplicity. Both have just the requisite presence on stage; any more insistence on their disagreeable opportunism would have been too much.

Ricciardi has surrounded Lloyd with a supporting cast of impeccable professionals, including the Company’s Artistic Director, Allyn Burrows, spot on as Lear’s Fool; MaConnia Chesser, always powerful, as scheming daughter Goneril…and Jennie M Jadow, who like Chesser excels at Shakespearean comedy but here, as Regan, becomes an imposing daughter in the play’s battle for family and country.

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 that Ms. Chesser, Ms. Jadow and Mr. Wood are all 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…

Company stalwart MaConnia Chesser and Jennie Jadow offer the toxic mix of hollow flattery and deep, destructive evil as Lear’s elder daughters.

Jennie M. Jadow plays Mistress Ford with a determination to bring her plans to fruition. She is her funniest when teasing Falstaff with her nearly naked ankle. She is at her best when putting her husband in his place for ever suspecting her of any infidelity.

Jennie M. Jadow has emerged as one of the troupe’s great clowns.

As played by… Jennie M. Jadow as her lady in waiting, the famous bilingual scenes are delightful…

The incredible cast…portrayed multiple characters each with their own mannerismsand way of speaking. By using various costume pieces they would transform into different characters for each scene. Altogether, they were wonderful

Jennie M. Jadow, among her variety of roles, which included Grey, Orleans, Alice, and Erpingham, brought off a colorful, then pitiable Bardolph, as he finds that his luck has run out, and what for him was routine looting brought him to the gallows…

…Jennie M. Jadow, who’s brilliant as the title character, a servant named Truffaldino…Jadow’s Truffaldino is an opportunist who’s neither as smart as he thinks he is nor, given the sitations he gets himself into, as smart as he needs to be. Jadow is hilarious as the difficulty escalates, progessing from sliding a meat-bearing tray across the stage floor to rolling prone between the two rooms without spilling plates of food.

It is Jennie M. Jadow’s Truffaldino who name checks these delicacies. A Shakespeare & Company veteran, she has great fun with Truffaldino’s oafishness and his increasingly peculiar oaths: “Hercules’ diaper!” “Thor’s kneecap!” Energetic and affable, she’s good in the few improvisatory moments that the script allows…

Of course, the center of every production of The Servant of Two Masters, is the servant, and Jennie M. Jadow is an energetic and precise Truffaldino who comfortably rests in the confusion he generates, bursting into a chant at the prospect of food or pacing in a circle around the stage as if to work off a little of the madcap humors coursing through his blood. Truffaldino’s antics as he serves dinner to both his masters at once is in Goldoni’s script, but Jadow makes the foodie’s japes her own as she slowly rolls about the stage, trying neither to be seen nor drop the plates.