Brent Alford (Toby Belch) and Daniel Fredrick (Andrew Aguecheek) contemplate David Coffee's (Feste) love song.
"Only rarely does an actor playing the clown, Feste, steal the show in TWELFTH NIGHT. But David Coffee steals pretty much every show he's in - and this time it's all in service to the Bard and to (T.J.) Walsh's melancholy vision of this lyrical comedy. Song is a crucial element in this piece, and Coffee sings each number eloquently, making sport with vowel and consonant, using pure tones and sour ones, making us as sad as his tomfoolery makes us merry."
- Lawson Taitte, Dallas Morning News
with Jeffrey Schmidt as Orsino
"One minor gripe: During the first major sword fight (in Romeo & Juliet), it is hard to hear Capulet's lines over the grunts of battle. And when David Coffee speaks, you want to listen.
But lest ye think his Capulet is the best you've ever seen in that role, check out his Feste in TWELFTH NIGHT. Coffee is a career scene-stealer, sometimes to the detriment of the production. There's probably no local actor of his age who's better at clowning. But Feste, like many of Shakespeare's fools, is devastatingly poignant underneath his veneer of cheer, and Coffee brings an adept world-weariness to the role, conveying the play's idea that things aren't always what they seem."
- Mark Lowry, Theatre Jones.com
Kelsey Milbourn (Juliet) dies (AGAIN!) in the stairwell while Andrew Milbourn (Mercutio), David Coffee (Capulet) and Emily Gray (Nurse) are all agog.
CAPULET'S BALL!
"And a brilliant David Coffee finds a true ferocity in Juliet's father that makes his scenes with her, unusually, among the strongest in the play."
-Tyler Cochran, The Column
Our wonderful Directors: Alex Burns ("ROMEO AND JULIET") and T. J. Walsh ("TWELFTH NIGHT")
Thanks again, to everyone for a satisfying experience! I hadn't played in Shakespeare since I last appeared on what is now called the Bushman Theatre stage as Prospero in "THE TEMPEST" in 1981!!! Most of this company hadn't even been born! Thanks Harry and T.J. for believing that I might actually be able to "learn all those lines"! HA!
The "Topper" to the season is: I received a Dallas-FortWorth Theater Critics Forum Award for Feste in "TWELFTH NIGHT"!