MARK JACKSON

PRESS:

“Art Street Theatre has its act together to an impressive degree… Its treatment of Oscar Wilde’s SALOME achieves both the expansive delivery and subtle inflections needed to bring this complex, metaphorical play to life.” - San Francisco Bay Guardian

"Less is more in R&J, this not-to-be-missed deconstruction of 'Romeo & Juliet.' Art Street Theatre has pared Shakespeare’s tragedy to the bone and rendered it startlingly alive and eerily dreamy… The action moves steadily from quirky irony to senseless tragedy to heartbreaking silence at an astonishing rate.” - SF Weekly

“All three stories in BRAVE deal baldly with private and national identity; together they give an interesting impression of a country in flux. Art Street has somehow managed, again, to make itself entertaining without being straightforward.” - SF Weekly

“BANG! is brilliant [and] pretty damn funny.” - SF Weekly

“Mark Jackson’s Art Street Theatre has long been on my list of small Bay Area companies that I’ve wanted to catch up with, and after taking in MESSENGER #1, Jackson’s witty, pointed, and well-staged version of Aeschylus’ The Oresteia this past weekend, I regret not having done so sooner.” - Back Stage West

"Seen here for the first time since their premiere in 1930s Paris, JACQUES DU BON TEMPS's plays seem amazingly prophetic, not only of Beckett and Ionesco but even of several contemporary San Francisco dramatists. Under director Mark Jackson, an eight-member ensemble makes du Bon Temps's work its own, creating a series of light, playful glosses on the nature of performing itself... Wonderfully loopy... Never allows its historical significance to outweigh its sense of fun." - San Francisco Bay Guardian

“IO PRINCESS OF ARGOS! is an absolute triumph… A playful, fluid instrument for humor, hallucination, and horror… This ranks with R&J as one of Art Street’s finest achievements to date. Don’t miss this inspired gem.” - San Francisco Bay Guardian

“I AM HAMLET is a hilarious show with flashes of brilliance. Jackson shapes his speeches and scenes like an expert craftsman; his movement is careful and choreographed... I haven’t seen a performer on the edge of restraint (in an original script, where I had no idea what would happen) in far too long.” - SF Weekly

“Working with theater director Mark Jackson, Chris Black [created] the 40-minute bravura solo THE ECSTASY OF SAINT WHATSHERNAME. …Tight, funny, philosophical, and altogether original..." - San Francisco Bay Guardian

“THE DEATH OF MEYERHOLD is an ambitious new work by brilliant playwright/director Mark Jackson… In three acts that are alternately funny, chilling, poignant, and starkly dramatic – and never less than consummately entertaining – Jackson traces the theatrical life of Vsevolod Meyerhold. …Stunning, and a must see.” - Back Stage West