Reviews
As Daphna in Bad Jews
St. James Theatre –
London transfer
To watch the superb Ms. Augen in full take-no-prisoners flow is to be sucked into the vortex of that rare stage creature who compels and repels in equal measure. Look away, and you find you cannot.
– Matt Wolf
Jenna Augen is magnificent as Daphna, relentlessly pick-pick-picking away at her cousin with exceptional comic timing. And she is by no means unbearable, as Augen adds real depth to the character.
– Daisy Bowie-Sell
Jenna Augen is stunning as this smiley, spikey, self-righteous but wounded young woman.
– Dominic Maxwell
Augen’s performance is a real tour de force and it’s not hard to see why she won the UK Theatre Award for the play’s initial run at the Ustinov Studio, Bath last year.
– Ben Hewis
As Daphna in Bad Jews
The Theatre Royal, Bath – Ustinov Studio
Daphna (superb Jenna Augen) is an intense, frizzy-haired and very voluble Vassar student […] There will be no justice in the world if this shockingly good production does not transfer to London.
– Paul Taylor
In Michael Longhurst’s beautifully nuanced and paced production, our sympathies shift at disconcerting speed between Jenna Augen’s ingeniously sharp-tongued Daphna and Ilan Goodman’s splenetic and sweary Liam […] Scaldingly funny.
– Dominic Cavendish
Miss Augen, a mass of dark curls and wide-popping-eyed frustration, gives a remarkable performance – a young Bette Midler springs to mind […] a fine dramatic creation […] Jenna Augen delivers an eye-popping performance.
– Quentin Letts
Jenna Augen conveys all Daphna’s needling assurance while hinting at her lurking insecurity […] Scalding rhetoric between hissing cousins […] The strength of the play lies in the vigour of their combat, which has something of the verbal firepower of Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
– Michael Billington