![]() Special congrats to Matthew Hancock and Rob Nagle, who have mastered some very special roles with skill – and pretty good hand/eye coordination and physical contortions too." Elaine Mura, LA Splash Magazines "Each actor takes on multiple roles and does so with talent, grace, and charm. "LA’s stalwart theatrical hero Nagle is as usual hilarious throughout as Wahtonee and later, when the exaggerated humor gradually transforms into something meant to be far less humorous, he’s downright scary playing the slave merchant LaFouche." Travis Michael Holder, TicketHoldersLA "Hancock and Nagle's clever and quite profane mirror act is worthy of the Marx Bros., as well as a hint of the craziness yet to come. Stewart's O'Hara-esque send-up and Nagle's scenery-devouring turns as the Playwright and the exploited Native American Wahnotee make for great comic bookends." Evan Henerson, Broadway World are masters of the blend of heightened reality and comedy." Tony Frankel, Stage and Cinema "The ever-excellent Rob Nagle does a riotous turn as the Indian Wahnotee (in red face)" Sylvie Drake, Cultural Daily It’s the production’s standout performance." Deborah Klugman, Stage Raw The other comic highlight is Nagle’s entire first scene as the inebriated (red-faced even without the makeup) Boucicault. ![]() " The bizarre double and triple casting in tandem with twists and turns in the plot achieve an apex of hilarious inanity when hero and villain, both played by Hancock in high octane mode, wrestle each other in a duel to the death (fight director Jen Albert). All of those emotions and chaotic energy carry over when he takes on the i ndigenous character of Wahnotee, complete with the racist practice of putting on redface to inhabit the role." Edward Hong, The Nerds of Color " Rob Nagle completely demolishes his Playwright role as the drunken manifestation of Dion Boucicault himself, which comes with so much rage, frustration, and lunacy that Nagle expertly delivers. Here is a man the audience can love to hate!" Elaine Mura, Splash Magazines " Special thanks to Rob Nagle, who plays Flip Benham, the clever and manipulative Evangelical minister and national director of the anti-abortion organization Operation Rescue. to boo when she submits to the rhetoric of born-again Christian preacher Flip Benham (an oozily charming Rob Nagle)." Margaret Gray, Los Angeles Times ".This use of direct address encourages the audience to join in. It is among the more impressive elements of what is already a high-bar performance." Jon Bee, Broadway World " Nagle especially, with the responsibility of three roles, goes above and beyond at developing three distinct characters. ![]() "Earning kudos as a second banana, Rob Nagle as the beleaguered Dogberry wows and fills the latter half of the show with satisfying laughs as he insists that he 'is an ass!' He and his crew of watchmen work together to lighten the devious plot against Hero by finding the villains in spite of themselves." Beki Pineda, Boulder Magazine " For outright laughs, Rob Nagle arrives as Dogberry, the pleasingly buffoonish constable who learns of Don John’s plot." Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post Using a combination of halting speech and body language, bizarre facial gestures and, of course, the Bard’s script, Nagle creates a highly memorable and very funny character not soon to be forgotten." Alex Miller, OnStage Colorado "In the scene-stealing department comes Rob Nagle, who portrays the constable Dogberry in an absurd wig and mustache that’s not even the most ridiculous part of the character. Despite minor opening night jitters, the three have a chemistry that has gelled well under Eckhouse’s fluid hands." Martίn Hernández, Stage Raw "Nordling, Nagle, and Wollrab make for a profane yet poignant set of brothers in Doherty’s absurdist storyline, with shadows of Samuels - Beckett and Shepard - tinging the script. Not only does Doherty’s play score comedic points for its writer and its phenomenal leads, it gives Nordling, Nagle, and Wollrab abundant dramatic meat to chew on, fine-tuned to razor-sharp perfection by director James Eckhouse, all of which adds up to three of the most original, indelible star turns you’ll see all year.” Steven Stanley, StageSceneLA ![]() “Traumatic childhood memories haunt a trio of 40something male siblings on a fateful Christmas Eve in Brothers Play, Matthew Doherty’s darkly comedic walloper now getting a spectacularly acted, directed, and designed World Premiere production at Legacy LA….
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