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EUROPEAN
PREMIERE

VINCENT
by Leonard Nimoy

Jim Jarrett in VINCENT

Dates

  • Preview: July 25
    Millfield House - Huxley Room
  • Previews: July 31 & Aug 1st
    Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh 2008
  • European Premiere
    Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh 2008
    August 2nd - 25th 2008
    16:25 - 17:40 - Edinburgh Suite

The Show

  • Beautifully haunting tribute to the Dutch Master, Vincent van Gogh by Star Trek's Leonard Nimoy.
  • play by Leonard Nimoy
  • European Premiere, Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh 2008
  • performed by Jim Jarrett

Awards

  • None Yet

Availability

  • Domestic and International touring from January 2009

Driven by passion, dismissed as a madman, died a pauper.

Paris 1890, Theo van Gogh mourns the suicide of his beloved brother Vincent a week earlier - who died in his arms at the age of 37. Four years later, Theo himself died, leaving Vincent's life story in the form of five hundred soul-revealing letters to his younger brother...

Leonard (Mr. Spock) Nimoy trawled through these letters and retells Vincent's story in Vincent's own words. American actor Jim Jarrett gloriously recreates the world of the misunderstood genius. Nimoy's powerfully moving play was performed by Nimoy himself on Broadway for which he garnered a Tony© Award. Jim Jarrett began performing the work eleven years ago and has since given over 1000 performances to universal acclaim.

Vincent is one of those rare bio-plays that successfully places the audience in the reincarnated presence of a genius and leads them through a tumultuous life leaving them the better for it; a meditation on the meaning of art and artistry in a world that measures success by sales... AnTop of page evening of insight into a gifted, haunted master...


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Vincent: Biographies

JIM JARRETT - Vincent
Jim Jarrett spent the first four years of his career with the legendary teacher, Sanford Meisner – two in his professional, private class the two more as Mr. Meisner's assistant and last teaching protégé. Jarrett is founder/director of The Meisner Technique School of Acting located in San Francisco. The school also has locations in Florence, Italy and Hawaii where Jarrett teaches a one-month 'intensive retreat' for actors where he offers an introduction to The Meisner Technique as well as his four week program entitled, The Business of Your Dream. His television credits include guest starring roles on Columbo, China Beach as well as the lead in the films Seeds of Tragedy and Death Dreams, starring alongside Christopher Reeves. For the last 12 years, Jim Jarrett has been touring Leonard Nimoy's Vincent to sold-out audiences in premier performing art centres, festivals, universities and museums throughout the world. In 2000, Jarrett was invited by The Philadelphia Museum of Art to perform Vincent while presenting the Van Gogh 'Faces' tour from Amsterdam. From this exposure, The International Theatre Festival selected Vincent as the only representative from the United States to participate. Vincent was also chosen 'Best of the Fest' - closing the festival in Manila in front of an SRO crowd of over two thousand people. In 2006, Jarrett's original full-length play on the legendary acting teacher Sanford Meisner had its world premiere at the historic Magic Theatre in San Francisco. Meisner was an overwhelming success and headed straight to Los Angeles for six weeks of more sold-out shows. Next, Meisner will head to New York and is currently being adapted into a full-length feature film. Jarrett also has in production a weekly documentary where he will capture the experience of teaching actors The Meisner Technique. The reality series is targeting HBO for distribution. In 2007, Jarrett introduced three children's shows - Manners Matter (designed for family audiences K-5), a unique, few-holds-barred, rabble-rousing 'commencement speech' titled Graduation Day ... now what am I really supposed to do? and finally, The Worst Thing About Me Is..., grades 6-8. All three shows are on a USwide, educational tour. When he's not on tour Jarrett resides in Sonoma, California and Sun Valley, Idaho with his most important production to date; his daughter, Kyla.

LEONARD NIMOY - Writer
Acting Film Credits: Queen for a Day, Rhubarb, Kid Monk Baroni, Francis Goes to West Point, Old Overland Trail, Them!, Satan's Satellites, The Balcony, Deathwatch, Valley of Mystery, Catlow, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (remake), Star Trek The Motion Picture, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (also directed), The Transformers, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (also directed), The Good Mother, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (also executive producer), Trekkies, Never Forget. Voice Over work: The Halloween Tree, Destiny in Space, The Pagemaster, Carpati: 50 Miles, 50 Years, A Life Apart: Hasidism in America, Invasion America, Armageddon: Target Earth, Sinbad: Beyond the Veil of Mists. Directing/Producing Credits: Three Men and a Baby, Funny About Love, Holy Matrimony, Deadly Games (TV Series, director and executive producer). Theatre performances include: A Streetcar Named Desire (also directed), Monserrat, Visit to a Small Planet, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Equus, Vincent (also written and directed – broadcast on the A&E cable network), Fiddler on the Roof, Catlow. Television credits include: Star Trek, Rawhide, The Virginian, Profiles in Courage, Dr. Kildare, Outer Limits, Sea Hunt, The Lieutenant, Mission: Impossible, Star Trek: The Next Generation, A Woman Called Golda, Marco Polo, The Alpha Caper, The Missing are Deadly, Brave New World. Nimoy published several volumes of poetry, illustrated with his original black and white photos. The first of these books was called, "Why Not You and I?"

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