Word: jarchoã
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She’s got credentials aplenty—most recently, she won the Berrilla Kerr playwriting award, was writer-in-residence alongside August Wilson at the Eugene O’Neill Playwrights Conference, and has put on three of her own plays here at Harvard. But Jarcho??s charisma and cheerful iconoclasm go far beyond her résum?...
...conversation, Jarcho moves with ease between her literature tutorial on departures from phallogocentric philosophy and enthusiastic discussions of lingerie and “tortoise-y math rock.” The last came up as a result of Jarcho??s sometime involvement as drummer, singer and songwriter in a band called Ensimismada, which played famed New York venues like CBGB and the Mercury Lounge. Jarcho translates the band’s Spanish name as “self-involved or lost in thought,” something she says applies to herself...
Last November, the annual Young Playwrights Festival in New York debuted Nursery by Julia Jarcho??03-’04, a play hailed in The New York Times as “Terrific stuff, stunning from a teenage writer.” Jarcho slides into the director’s chair as well for her latest production, The Highwayman, which will open today in the Adams Kronauer Space. The Highwayman is inspired by the Alfred Noyes poem of the same name published in 1907. (Jarcho notes that her play is inspired by, not adapted from, the poem...
...story. It’s much more a response than an attempt to render it,” the playwright explains. The poem focuses on Bess, a beautiful girl who tries to save the life of her beloved highwayman by shooting herself, thereby warning him of an ambush. In Jarcho??s version, however, Bess is the center of what she describes as “a complex of experiences” that include the story of the highwayman. She exists both in the turn-of-the-century setting of “The Highwayman?...
...familiarity of many of the cast members makes for some strange and hilarious moments during rehearsal. When Ezekiel W. “Zeke” Reich ’03, the eponymous Highwayman and a friend of Jarcho??s since childhood, messes up a line in a particularly odd way, he and Jarcho burst out laughing. After about thirty seconds, the rest of the cast looks at each other mystified. Finally, one actor admits “I don’t get it” and the rest of the casts nods in agreement. Later, Reich says...