6 thoughts on “Jarrett Holbrook

  1. Hi, I’m Wendy Dann, I’m a freelance director and I teach directing at Ithaca College. I appreciate the research packet here but I’d love to see more of how you’re responding to the play emotionally as well…are there images that are evocative for you of the climax?

  2. Hi Jarrett – Paul Miller here. I like your script analysis here – it’s… succinct. But I wouldn’t mind you expanding on it a little bit more. Your research looks good but if I could talk to you I’d probably press you a little bit on how it all makes you feel (why did you make the choice in the first place) – or how your thoughts and reactions to the piece inform your research choices.

  3. Hi Jarrett–Jennifer Werner here (Director/Choreographer) curious to see the research more fleshed out as it relates to how you see the set. For instance what about that Grecian front porch resonates with Medea’s story and how does it interact with how the action plays out for you? Its a good starting point so you could dig a littler deeper with your script analysis to connect things that you feel are important.

  4. Hi Jarrett,

    My name is Pam Berlin and I’m a director.

    In your research you say “Ancient Greece exists within its own separate universe that has no past or future” and for both plays you say “Exile and deportation are the same thing.” These are emotional and true responses that you clearly have to the material. I would encourage you to really listen to those feelings about the story and the characters to find images that are not only literal but also evocative so that you can find images that are not just literal but also metaphorical. That would allow you to begin to express HOW you imagine the story can be portrayed and told.

  5. Hi Jarrett – I teach design (and other things) at the University of Regina (in Canada) and freelance when I can. So I was drawn to this line in your work “For me this manifests itself as the idea that the ancient Greece exists within its own separate universe from ours that has no past or future” and I think that many of us can relate to that but it’s an urge we have to fight. The people of Athens, Sparta, Crete lived and breathed, bathed, had sex, bled, fought, learned, danced, sweated just as we do today and probably had no idea they were living in “a golden age” or “just beyond the golden age” or “centuries after the golden age”. I think one of the reasons for this is the state of all the statuary and temples that have been “discovered” are pristine but in reality the temples, statues, houses, columns…all the marble was painted in manner that, today, we would consider quite garish. If we were able to see the Ancient world as they saw it- full of colour, pattern and life I think we would have different understanding of that world (and how it is still so connected to ours). So this is a very long way of saying your research is in a good place but disquiet what you are planning on doing with it…push hard against your/our understanding of Ancient Greece and match your world to the world of the play (not the world of Ancient Greece)…Medea is a dirty, bloody, monstrous, very human play and needs a dirty, bloody, monstrous, sandbox to play in:-)

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