THE MANY VOICES OF JANIS JAMISON
Though there’ll be only one person on stage, Readers Theatregoers will be treated to nearly twenty different characters the 14th and 15th of this month when Janis Jamison reads the challenging one-woman play “Brontë.” William Luce’s entertaining, thought-provoking script demands that—in addition to central figure Charlotte Brontë, renowned creator of the gothic masterpiece “Jane Eyre”—the actress bring to life the family and servant members of the 19th-century Yorkshire household in which Charlotte grew up, plus a diverse score of colorful individuals who impacted her life at significant moments.
As she prepares this stimulating theater piece, Janis is drawing on the many lessons learned in her acquisition of two theater arts degrees from Cal State University Long Beach. Director Bill Blanc says that he’s “powerfully impressed by the performance skills this lady manifests in our rehearsals. ” Janis honed these skills in numerous professional stage, film and television appearances throughout the Southland in the 1960s and ‘70s before she came to the Indian Wells Valley and began starring in our musicals (including “Sweeney Todd” and “Gypsy”) and applying her teaching and acting skills in the Cerro Coso theater and English programs.
Bill also commends Greg Coté for “the masterful job he’s doing in compiling busy sound- and music-tracks, plus functioning as our pretty-busy Narrator.”
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