Doris, Will and Me
This show now interweaves my improbable life story - logging camps then Stratford at its zenith; serendipity everywhere for me…courage too. Maggie Smith curses me out one day, then praises me the next. Peter Ustinov gives me a two-season stomach from laughing. I repaid him with rude Edgar-antics he could mug at. His Lear was a sublime mixture of humour and pathos. Mom almost had a heart attack meeting him in his dressing room…etc. I was never the star but always there. I was a good listener. Then I taught Shakespearean monologues for 20 years, and that is why I know so many. So this show is like a nutritious salad created by Chef Bard, then spiced by his workers like Martha Henry, Bill Hutt, Brian Bedford, Robin Phillips, Peter Ustinov, Michael Langham and Maggie Smith.
I then serve the meal; tips accepted.
Plank Magazine 2011
We can't be anything but amazed watching this master of character transition in and out of his many roles and in such rapid sequence but yet as smoothly and with such precision that we hardly realize what has happened until we are onto the next act.
Robert Cushman, National Post 2007
Like an Elizabethan Spalding Grey, we got a grand tour so lavishly described we could almost taste the bread and smell the shit in the chamber pots.
2023 Presentation House audience member
You magnificently distilled so much rich language, extraordinary experience, and quite stunning skill into a most memorable occasion. Thank you.