Tattoos
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“Nail Polish and Tattoos” pro
motes. For example, the second
monologue begins with “Nail Pol
ish and Tattoos says, ‘Every
woman should have a husband.’”
These mantras take Jacobus from
being a 6-year-old cancer patient
to a 30-something lamenting her
dead mother to a motivational
speaker for people suffering from
an ‘Over-Developed Sense of Ro
mance’ (ODSR).
Having written the show her
self, Jacobus injects a personal el
ement into all the characters she
portrays. This makes watching
the show seem at times as if you
are sitting in a confessional
booth. The brutal honesty may
occasionally make the audience
uncomfortable. There are periods
when Jacobus’ personal connec
tion feels more distant, and those
are the times when the show lags.
But when she really connects
with something personal, not just
for herself but on an individual
level with audience members, it
hits home.
The most universal of the
sketches is the ODSR meeting,
and it provides much needed hu
mor in a very emotional show. Ja
cobus talks about the danger of
romance movies, television and
love songs. She blames Meg Ryan
for being so perfect and Phil
Collins for writing sappy songs
that we can’t stop listening to.
The satire continues until it be
comes evident that to prevent
oneself from suffering from
ODSR, one must be removed
from the world.
What evolves from this idea, and
throughout the play, is not that
normalcy doesn’t exist, but the
question: Who would want to be
normal? Jacobus deals with this
very assertively and ends up turn
ing the stage into more of a soap
box.
The show’s 60-minute length is
tiring to sit through, but the inter
est ebbs and flows enough so that
there isn't any period of prolonged
length where it is hard to pay at
tention./
Jacobus is to be commended for
writing a show dealing with pri
marily women’s issues while not
isolating a male audience. There
are certainly things that men will
not relate to, but Jacobus isn’t at all
hostile to men.
Even more so, Jacobus deserves
credit for putting herself on the
line and doing it well.
“Nail Polish and Tattoos” plays
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Jackie Jacobus assumes a teenage persona and struggles with the image of “Miss Teen
Princess” as one of the vignettes for her play, “Nail Polish and Tattoos.”
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