REVIEWS

"There's no lack of radical thinking in the story behind Frederic Mohr's BARRY... Jarrett conveys it with great charm and skill."
Joyce McMillan, The Scotsman

"Isabella Jarrett deserves plaudits for a brilliant sustained performance"
Mark Brown, Sunday Herald

"An intensely emotional and contemporary Faust... the poet-figure of thefirst half reappears transformed into a woman, beautifully played by Isabella Jarrett... Thomson's company deliver Clifford's mind-blowing 21st century take on this great story with an idealism and intensity that becomes irresistible." Joyce McMillan, The Scotsman

"It calls for a tour-de-force from the lead actress and Isabella Jarrett provides it, cajoling, flirting and being intimate with her audience."
John Binnie, The List

"The excellent Isabella Jarrett - playing Callas... perfectly becomes a woman able to be amusingly ironic about her own image and legend, while never conceding an inch of her entitlement to all the worship and adulation she has had."
Joyce McMillan, Scotland on Sunday

"...a courageous performance from Isabella Jarrett with a sincere passion and a comanding presence."
John Di Falco, The Stage

"Isabella Jarrett's performance for The Brunton Theatre Company is brittle,brash and truthful."
Peter Whitebrook, The Scotsman.

"She produces an absolutely moving account of an ordinary human soul struggling out from under the heap of social expectations and petty musts that rule our lives , to claim a little freedom and power for itself and winning through."
Joyce McMillan, Scotland on Sunday

"Kevin McKidd and Isabella Jarrett make a compelling pair as the boy Finn and his lovely widowed mother Catrine, striking sparks of tension and passionate attachment..."
Joyce McMillan, Scotland on Sunday

" Isabella Jarrett is a marvellously warm and gutsy Catrine...."
Richard Loup-Nolan, The Independent