JUMP!

by Lisa McGee (Ireland)

directed by Ari Edelson

American Premiere

The Kirk Theatre

Theatre Row

April/May 2007

JUMP!

by Lisa McGee (Ireland)

directed by Ari Edelson

American Premiere

The Kirk Theatre

Theatre Row

April/May 2007

Hunter, NY

May 2007

PRAISE FOR JUMP!

FLAVORPILL
“Cleverly constructed in a nonchronological and elliptical fashion, young Irish playwright Lisa McGee's Jump! is a darkly humorous web of scenes from a New Year's Eve gone horribly wrong. Originally set in Belfast, the play relocates the action to Staten Island for its New York premiere by new repertory the Exchange (formerly Jean Cocteau Rep) and is ably helmed by the group's artistic director, Ari Edelson. Using minimal yet compelling sound and lighting effects, Edelson sets the stage for pitch-perfect comic performances — most notably Jordan Gelber as a Madonna-loving, goombah hitman and Meredith Zinner as a drunken party girl enraged by tired pick-up lines. Tequila, debt, and murder add up to an unfortunately funny outer-borough mind trip. (JP)”

THE NEW YORK TIMES
"Forget stuffy chestnuts by dead white guys. The two plays, 'Jump!' and 'Realism,' new dramas from Britain currently in repertory on Theater Row, are aggressive, coarse entertainments pitched to an
audience reared on Beavis and Butt-Head rather than Strindberg and Shaw." -- Jason Zinoman