MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING

Times Union-“Saratoga Shakespeare Returning After Two Dark Summers”

“‘Much Ado’ stars Saratoga Shakespeare veteran Tim Dugan, who played the title character in “Macbeth” in 2014 and Bottom in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” in 2017, opposite Laura Menzie as the battling Benedick and Beatrice, whose opposition to marriage, especially to each other, is overcome by meddlesome shenanigans by friends and family.”

The Saratogian-“Saratoga Shakespeare offers free ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ in Congress Park”

“With the city on board, they (SSC) reached out to loyal company members. One of the first contacted was actor Tim Dugan, who was a leading man in many of the productions. He agreed to play Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing.” 

Nippertown-“A Joyful ‘Much Ado’ at Congress Park” (Review)

“My favorite moments of the whole show where went Beatrice (Laura Menzie) and Benedick (Tim Dugan) traversed the audience while eavesdropping about the other’s love for the spy in question. I was seated close to a gaggle of elementary school aged children, and the element of humor was certainly not lost on them. I loved hearing them laugh with Menzie and Dugan remaining completely in character. You just know that one of them will grow up and cite this show as the reason why they started acting themselves. It truly was the definition of joyful.”

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM

 

“Their star is Bottom, in a splendidly funny performance by Tim Dugan, who is every bit as good with comedy as he was with the heavy lifting of being the title character in “Macbeth” three summers ago in Saratoga. His facility with the language and seemingly instinctual gift for physical comedy, especially during the scenes in which Bottom has been turned into a donkey, make it a standout performance…”  Steve Barnes-TIMES UNION July 2017

“Tim Dugan is terrific as Bottom making him a man vulnerable to his personal insecurities without having his compensating vanity become irritating. ”              Saratogian-2017

 

SHIPWRECKED!

“Saratoga Shakespeare’s 2015 Shipwrecked! featured Tim Dugan, outstanding in all his creations, stealing every scene he was in. Dugan did yeoman work creating all the sounds of London-sea-Australia live just off-stage but in view of the audience, but it was his focus, his integrity, and his honesty with which the whirlwind of characters he created and his acting with the audience that became the sail which made the 90 minute running time fly by. While each of Dugan’s characters was distinct and personal (from Queen Victoria to cannibal, from 11-year-old boy to disdainful journalist unearthing the fraud that Rougemont was), Dugan’s Bruno the dog was an audience favorite, and even cat fanciers shed a tear when Bruno died. Dugan’s talent deserved his applause, and Saratoga Shakespeare’s first indoor production was all the better for it.”

-Metroland-Best of 2015

LONG LIVE THE LITTLE KNIFE

“Burns and Dugan are so amusing and enthralling in their performances as con artists Liz and Jim, and in their imitations of all the other characters in their recounted tale, that we are tricked into forgetting that they are actors, not forgers telling their own true story. In so doing, a self-referencing theatrical layer is woven into the theme of cunning, giving a nod to Boccaccio’s famous concept “Ars simia naturae” (“Art imitates life”) and putting the double in double-cross.”

-Phindie 2/2015

BENGAL TIGER AT THE BAGHDAD ZOO

“Dugan’s Tom is the most realistic character and the one who proceeds throughout “Bengal Tiger” with a firm and consistent purpose. Even his approach to playing a dedicated, if self-serving, soldier is impeccable.”

“Tim Dugan is strong in the part for Temple Theaters. He provides a solid core of authenticity to Joseph’s ambitious piece that blends fantasy and the supernatural with stark, unattractive reality, not only about vestiges of war, but about human nature. Dugan’s Tom is a character you want to see succeed.”

-Neal’s Paper 9/2014

MACBETH

“Tim Dugan gives a riveting performance as the title character in “Macbeth,” Saratoga Shakespeare Company’s 15th annual production.

Paired with an equally good Amy Prothro as his wife, Lady Macbeth, Dugan creates a man whose ambition is spurring him to be king, but whose conscience objects to the bloody path it will take to get there. Virile in presence and possessing a beautiful facility with Shakespeare’s language, Dugan is captivating to watch, and he and Prothro imbue their scenes together with genuine heat.”

-Albany Times Union 7/2014

DOUBT

Tim Dugan is a vulnerable, challenged Father Flynn. His good looks make the accusations plausible but his strength and even his self-challenges bring us slowly into the concept of doubt. His work here is about the finest I’ve seen an actor deliver in this role.

-Berkshire Bright Focus 6/2014