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ROMEO & JULIET
Four
Humors Theater Company
"When Romeo (Jason Bohon) wanders into the
crowd and begins to direct his speech to the audience members, there's
a genuine feel to it; it seems he's actually speaking to the
theatergoers, not just reciting his lines in one's personal space.
Throughout, Bohon sustains his role well. He plays a thoughtful Romeo,
humanizing the character's rather absurd (rather pubescent) passions
and moods- he's gloomy, sure, but never becomes melodramtically morose."
-Max Rose, The Rake Magazine
"Any Romeo & Juliet rises and falls
on its title characters, and Four Humors has a great pair of actors.
Jason Bohon as Romeo and Elise Langer as Juliet are just...well, real
people. You believe they're feeling the thing they're talking about.
There is no better example than the balcony scene (I know, the dreaded
balcony scene). Rather than reverently caressing each and every
syllable of the text, Langer and Bohon say the words the way two people
giddy with love would. The words tumble out of their mouths. The
competing trains of thought ricochet back and forth , and their
conversation- both talking to themselves and each other- reflects this
dizzying swirl of emotion. They respect us enough to figure we can keep
up and parse out the meaning, since they so clearly know it, rather
than spoon-feeding us each phrase and idea. Bohon's Romeo goes from
being a guy drunk on the drama of unrequited love to actually reveling
in the real thing when Langer's Juliet returns his affection. They're
not just cute (in a good way) with each other, they're a lot of fun to
watch engaging the other actors in the ensemble as well."
-Matthew A. Everett, Twin Cities Daily Planet
GYPSY & THE GENERAL
3
Sticks Theatre Company
"In this beautifully nimble gem of physical
theater by 3 Sticks, the performers create whole worlds (desert,
jungle, mountaintop) and events (shipwreck, rescue, war) with a
wide-ranging physical vocabulary, songs, and a few industrial props.
Jason Bohon, the Doctor, injects zany sweetness in a show with quiet
emotional punch."
-John Townsend, Minneapolis Star Tribune
FLOYD COLLINS
Theater
Latte Da
"Jason Bohon, as a reporter who crawls into
the cave to interview Floyd, also takes an affecting journey from naive
wimp to a solemn and toothsome individual."
-Graydon Royce, Minneapolis Star Tribune
MELANCHOLY PLAY
3
Sticks Theatre Company
"It's not melancholy at all. It is even laugh out loud funny at times
with its slightly-disconnected-from-reality story, and 3 Sticks'
accomplished facility with physical comedy. 3 Sticks founders Katie
Melby as Tilly and Jason Bohon as Frank anchor the capable ensemble
cast."
-Janet Preus, HowWasTheShow.com
PSYCH (directing reviews)
Tongue
in Cheek Theater Productions
"Director Jason Bohon keeps the pacing tight so there is always
something happening to push the story further (and also muddy the
details the audience once though they knew as fact). With entrances and
exits in three of the four corners of the playing space, the movement
flows on stage and off and you can sort of get swept up in the back and
forth of the action altogether. And as the drama unfolds, it makes it
all the more fun to play along and guess what will happen next.
-Molly Marinik, TheatreIsEasy.com
"Tongue in Cheek Theater's heavenly production of PSYCH, directed by
Jason Bohon, centers on one "Mistress" Sunny (Jake Lipman) who is both
a committed psychology student and a very professional dominatrix. The
mundance and the ordinary add up again and again and turn out to be
everyone's undoing, for in the grand tradition of analysis, PSYCH is a
show that runs on surface tension."
-Hannah Gold, NYTheatre.com
TRIUMPH OF LOVE (directing reviews)
Shakespeare
on the Cape
"...the actors playing a middle-aged brother-sister pair of emotionally
stunted scholars are highly skilled, fully engaged, and a lot of fun to
watch- as is the rest of the cast in Jason Bohon's lively, quick-witted
production."
-Louise Kennedy, The Boston Globe
"The cast is slapstick and the laughs gentle but constant. Directed by
Jason Bohon, this production is a steady vehicle that does not lag.
Rather, it flies by even though there are three acts and two
intermissions."
-Melora B. North, Provincetown Banner
"TRIUMPH is a smart show delivered with excellent elocution adn
punctuated with hilarity. The cast avoids the fluffy, pompous,
Shakespeare-on-the-cheap quality that Marivaux's work can take on. They
run through this play like it's antique Seinfeld and simply blast
through the dialogue, sometimes ripping it apart, to reveal a clever
storyline and delightful farce."
-Bethany Gibbons, The Barnstable Patriot
GENERAL
"At the helm of the Minneapolis-based 3 Sticks Theatre Company is Jason
Bohon, a graduate of the London International School of Performing Arts
(a spin-off of Jacques Lecoq) who first arrived at the Fringe in 2005
to perform a lovely, movement-based show called MYTHED."
-Christy Desmith, Rake Magazine
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