The Wall Street Journal Proclaims Faculty Member Kirk Jackson’s Production “Wholly Admirable”

“It’s the best ‘Rosencrantz and Guildenstern’ I’ve ever seen on stage.” So said The Wall Street Journal’s Friday, June 8, 2007, review of drama faculty member Kirk Jackson’s latest production. The Tom Stoppard play “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,”—directed by Jackson and staged this summer at the Studio Theatre in Washington, D.C., as part of the city-wide celebration of “Shakespeare in Washington”—expands on two minor characters that appear in Hamlet.

Jackson writes: “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern allows us to contemplate death, reminds people of their mortality, while simultaneously evoking the most valuable experience in life: laughter.” Wall Street Journal critic Terry Teachout agrees: “So it does—and so does this wholly admirable staging.”

“Kirk Jackson and Daniel Conway, the director and designer, have given us a production that looks like a Magritte painting come to life,” Continuing, Teachout declares “I liked everything about it and everyone in it.”

Jackson, who has taught at Bennington since 2001, has performed on and off Broadway and throughout the U.S. in nearly 200 productions. He has appeared in premieres of Love! Valour! Compassion! and Quills (NYTW); Wonder of the World, (Wooly Mammoth); Three Birds Alighting on a Field (MTC); and Stirrings Still by Samuel Beckett (Center Stage). As a director, his productions have included Gray's Anatomy (two Zoni Award nominations) and The English American (Best of Fringe, Edinburgh Fringe Festival), among several others.

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