PER BRASK

RE: Troels Christian Jakobsen
During the last eight weeks, April 28 – June 20, 2003, Mr. Troels Christian Jakobsen has been doing a Directing Intensive with me. He has directed student actors in various projects, amounting to 18 scenes and 12 monologues. The work was presented every two weeks, three batches of scenes and a batch of monologues. The particular focus of Mr. Jakobsen’s work was the interaction with actors, specifically in terms of discovering the kinds of director-actor communication, which would release the best possible performance from the individual acting student.
Throughout the session Mr. Jakobsen’s work was sensitive to each acting student’s needs and the requirements of the scene or monologue being worked on. Though not working in his mother tongue, he was often remarkably subtle in his communications and always effective. The acting student benefited greatly from working with him.
During this Directing Intensive, it became clear to me that Mr. Jakobsen has a rare gift for zeroing in on the fundamental human dilemma a well-written scene provides and from there leading his actors into a persuasive theatricality vested in their own persons. Consequently, Mr. Jakobsen’s theatre is deeply engaging and thought-provoking.
Mr. Jakobsen is a very talented theatre artist and I am delighted to give him my highest recommendations.
Yours sincerely, Per Brask