After Harry and T.J. spoke, Alan Shorter joined Harry and me in "BRUSH UP YOUR SHAKESPEARE"!
A good "house" at the Trinity Shakespeare Festival Supporters' Reception!
With our "HAMLET" Director (and the Festival's Artistic Director), T.J. Walsh.
Brian Clinnin's Elsinore!
Our "HAMLET" Company!
With Alyssa Gardner as Ophelia.
"The Players are come hither, my lord." (Eric Dobbins, Andrew Milbourn, Curtis Shideler and Yours Truly)
Sara Harris (Stage Manager), Stephen Fried (Director), James Crawford (Benedick) and David Coffee (Leonato) at the Opening Night Reception for "MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING".
"Coffee, a connoisseur of comic line delivery, displays his skill with reigning in his bigness in the first half of "Much Ado", and in the second, when Leonato has some of the show's most stirring dramatic speeches, Coffee nails those, too. His "doth not every earthly thing" monologue, delivered with profound sadness and guilt, is destined to become a high point of anyone's Shakespeare-going experience.
A performance like that can drown out the other players on any stage. But not here. Coffee doesn't strive for individual recognition. He's another puzzle-piece fitting in with other complex, jigsaw-cut pieces, striving for a complete picture. He doesn't so much raise the bar as he elevates everyone around him to it."
- Mark Lowry for THEATER JONES.com
"I have never experienced a more clearly delineated, more beautiful or more perfectly cast production of "Much Ado About Nothing" than in Trinity Shakespeare Festival's current production. It's magnificent, funny, ribald, thought provoking, artful, playful, and sober, everything a Shakespearean comedy should be and more. What results is a comprehensive experience of Shakespeare in performance the audience will not likely find anywhere else in this region. Guaranteed."
- Alexandra Bonifield for EXAMINER.com
All production photos by Amy Peterson