Jill Jackson - A Long Drink of Silence

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Joyful lessons from gutsy performer

Using only a tiny stage, a couple of hats, a rocking chair, an embroidered footstool, one guitar...

San Francisco

Jill Jackson tells her life story from a sparse set that reflects her small-town roots: it's a little tattered, a little religious. But our attention is drawn to an ever-changing altar cluttered with the icons she's accumulated on the way to who she is.

Jill Jackson's A Long Drink of Silence invites us into one woman's life-to meet ourselves. By Patrice Parks

Most people just want to tell their stories. It is a precious thing and it's all we have to give-our lives in a story. So we listen to each other's stories, and in them discover our own.

JILL JACKSON is a special soul and spending an evening in her company supplies a rewarding experience. Her one woman autobiographical presentation, "A Long Drink of Silence (A Banquet for the Soul)," is continues at the Cherry Center in Carmel and it is one special event.

Theatre Review by Dodie Barkley

Ah, Broadway, the "Boulevard of Broken Dreams," where many are called but few are chosen. Yes, all of that. But what if, after choosing a life in the theatre, you merely endure a lesson in futility to find that your life is going nowhere?

Writing, producing and acting in a one-person show about your own life takes guts. It requires sufficient talent as a writer to create a script scintillating enough to support the performer who must hold the attention of the audience for more than an hour.