The New York Times
"The dashing young Eraste (Dave Quay) and Ms. Pedlow make a couple easy to root for... The entire cast excels... "
"One of the liveliest, largest, and busiest casts to be found Off Broadway... the face-splitting grin it puts on your face in the first act never fades."
Broadway World
"Absolutely electric chemistry between Lizzie and Dave Quay's Darcy... There are too many moments of brilliance to capture in a single theater review."
"Dave Quay and Liam Craig are a delight as Stephano and Trinculo, whose drunken capers about the island provide the comic mirror to Prospero's own struggles."
Berkshire on Stage
"Quay is a fine physical comic... He is the most arresting figure on the stage."
DC Metro Arts
"Dave Quay is hilarious, with delightfully comic touches which add merriment to their scenes. The clowns’ encounters with Caliban are among the principal joys of the evening."
Theatermania
"In one scene, Quay and Craig create a vaudeville act worthy of a return ticket to Milan."
Philly.com
"There is not a weak link or a dropped syllable or a missed chance for a laugh among them."
Time Out New York
"Here the stock is flavored to a T
With vibrant comic ingenuity."
Stephen Holt
(The Stephen Holt Show)
"I saw one of the best, most moving pieces of theater I have seen in a long, long time. Quay’s masterful, incredibly skillful clowning recalls all the great mimes, Marcel Marceau, Chaplin, Buster Keaton and reminds you of how sad the world of wordless clowns can be, and how heart-breaking... The final images are shattering."
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
"Dracula (Dave Quay) is a dangerously seductive prince... Quay’s take on the fanged lord of Transylvania is cool and restrained. And you’ll swear there are vampires dancing in the shadows..."
"Dave Quay plays a particularly youthful, almost collegiate-seeming Marc Antony... [H]e succeeds at making the famed funeral oration a master class in crowd manipulation."
Atlanta INtown Paper
"A pleasant surprise of the evening is Dave Quay’s performance as Antony... He more than rises to the occasion. He’s superb in Antony’s “O pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth” soliloquy, which is marred only by the too-early entrance of a servant."
The Chautauquan Daily
"Quay’s Berowne is an obvious standout, as the actor commanded the stage with charisma and natural ease."
"During the play-within-a-play near the end of Thursday's opening, an actor inadvertently knocked over a statue of Cupid. The prop shattered, leading to laughter that threatened to take the play away from its purpose. But actor Dave Quay, who plays the young king’s friend Berowne and who had had some very funny stage business with said prop earlier, quickly brought things under control. He picked up the main remnant of Cupid and put it under some foliage, literally putting a lid on the moment. In leading the recovery of the play, Quay showed an impressive presence of mind and turned what could have been an unsettling irritant into one of the production’s pearls (and something that should somehow be incorporated into the staging)."
"The dashing young Eraste (Dave Quay) and Ms. Pedlow make a couple easy to root for... The entire cast excels... "
"One of the liveliest, largest, and busiest casts to be found Off Broadway... the face-splitting grin it puts on your face in the first act never fades."
Broadway World
"Absolutely electric chemistry between Lizzie and Dave Quay's Darcy... There are too many moments of brilliance to capture in a single theater review."
"Dave Quay and Liam Craig are a delight as Stephano and Trinculo, whose drunken capers about the island provide the comic mirror to Prospero's own struggles."
Berkshire on Stage
"Quay is a fine physical comic... He is the most arresting figure on the stage."
DC Metro Arts
"Dave Quay is hilarious, with delightfully comic touches which add merriment to their scenes. The clowns’ encounters with Caliban are among the principal joys of the evening."
Theatermania
"In one scene, Quay and Craig create a vaudeville act worthy of a return ticket to Milan."
Philly.com
"There is not a weak link or a dropped syllable or a missed chance for a laugh among them."
Time Out New York
"Here the stock is flavored to a T
With vibrant comic ingenuity."
Stephen Holt
(The Stephen Holt Show)
"I saw one of the best, most moving pieces of theater I have seen in a long, long time. Quay’s masterful, incredibly skillful clowning recalls all the great mimes, Marcel Marceau, Chaplin, Buster Keaton and reminds you of how sad the world of wordless clowns can be, and how heart-breaking... The final images are shattering."
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
"Dracula (Dave Quay) is a dangerously seductive prince... Quay’s take on the fanged lord of Transylvania is cool and restrained. And you’ll swear there are vampires dancing in the shadows..."
"Dave Quay plays a particularly youthful, almost collegiate-seeming Marc Antony... [H]e succeeds at making the famed funeral oration a master class in crowd manipulation."
Atlanta INtown Paper
"A pleasant surprise of the evening is Dave Quay’s performance as Antony... He more than rises to the occasion. He’s superb in Antony’s “O pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth” soliloquy, which is marred only by the too-early entrance of a servant."
The Chautauquan Daily
"Quay’s Berowne is an obvious standout, as the actor commanded the stage with charisma and natural ease."
"During the play-within-a-play near the end of Thursday's opening, an actor inadvertently knocked over a statue of Cupid. The prop shattered, leading to laughter that threatened to take the play away from its purpose. But actor Dave Quay, who plays the young king’s friend Berowne and who had had some very funny stage business with said prop earlier, quickly brought things under control. He picked up the main remnant of Cupid and put it under some foliage, literally putting a lid on the moment. In leading the recovery of the play, Quay showed an impressive presence of mind and turned what could have been an unsettling irritant into one of the production’s pearls (and something that should somehow be incorporated into the staging)."
