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YOU DON’T KNOW JACK, an evening of Variety Theater like you have never seen before!
In YOU DON’T KNOW JACK you will be in the company of a guide who has it all: a red nose, an open heart, and a finely tuned compass for comedy. Jack Golden has evolved his own creative alchemy and transformed his lifetime of experiences into laughter, tears, and stories where you might be surprised to find yourself.
Jack has spent forty years traveling the country as a performing artist. He earned his clown shoes at San Francisco’s renowned Pickle Family Circus, studied mime, movement, and improvisation with Master Physical Theater Artist Tony Montanaro in South Paris ME., joined the New Vaudeville troupe The Wright Brothers, and then became a solo performer, traveling to schools throughout the U.S. and delighting children with his environmental message.
When asked what it was like to create You Don’t Know Jack, Golden said, “It was a joy and a celebration. It was a way to embrace pain and loss. It was a lot of things, including the poignant luxury of investigating family, friendship, and the things that most shape us”.
You Don’t Know Jack is a rich retrospective about a wide-ranging life. It started in one place, going down one path with one thought in mind, but it led him through a forest, that opened up on a bluff overlooking the ocean. Golden says, “I can see how I got here, but I could never have predicted it. And now that I’m here, I see it was inevitable.”
You Don’t Know Jack is written by Jack and his wife, Lisa Limont, and is equal parts thoughtfully crafted and spontaneous. It offers glimpses of his personal life and performing career, as he reflects on some of the pivotal moments through the lens of a clown, mime, storyteller, comic, and improviser.
