Jarrett Solo at Magic Theatre

Jim Jarrett Solo Thru Aug. 27 at Magic Theatre
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Jim Jarrett's Inspirational Drama Lecture at the Magic

Jim Jarrett's solo show, billed as a full-length play entitled Talk is Cheap;
Dreams Are Priceless, comes off more like a class on acting. Jarrett conducts
the class according to the Meisner technique, a technique that trains actors
to be authentic and believable and to be truthful on stage rather than to work
exclusively for fame.
Jarrett begins by addressing the audience as students in a class. "So you all
want to be actors! Well, we will see!" he exclaims, implying that this will
happen only if we all truly commit ourselves to this aim. Minutes later he
tests the strengths of purpose of his students, offering anyone who wants to leave
to go if he has the courage to quit acting. Video scenes of acting sessions
with actors follow, often driven to extremes to bring out the best in them.
"Yes, acting is not easy, he tells them, because you must make the material you
work with a part of your soul. It could take from ten to thirty years to
develop high quality acting."
The strength of this lecture on acting is the inspirational motivation that
Jarrett communicates through a kind of channeling of his forner master, Sanford
Meisner, who has influenced many of our finest actors. In fact Jarrett's
lecture on the values one should adopt in acting may also apply to other arts and
domains. Not only actors but stage directors, writers as well as artists and
individuals in other occupations leave inspired to bring out the light inside
of themselves through a truthful search for authenticity rather than by
superficial values of commercial or immediate success.
Jim Jarrett will open a drama school called The Meisner Technique School of
Acting for both adults and younger students in San Francisco in September. For
information call 208-720-7888.
Talk is Cheap plays through Aug. 27. For information call 415- 441-8822. or
visit www.magictheatre.org.