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Brilliant Lies
"All the performances were believable and engaging, but the trio of siblings at the center of the story were outstanding. Understudy Deidre Rose played the lead role of party girl Susy. Rose portrayed Susy as cross between Jessie Spano [Saved by the Bell] and Catherine Tramell [Basic Instinct], and it didn’t hurt that she looked the part. She delivered a strong performance in a compromising role, one that required her to be ethically ambiguous. She did so flawlessly and created a case for audience sympathy and suspicion."
- The Bay Bridged
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Romeo & Juliet
“And this is frankly one of the finest OFS productions I’ve seen. Its velocity, tumbling comedy and bawdy, tragedy through lightning brawls…
“Deidre Rose’s first role as Serving Man is chocked with fleer and taunt…
“Incidentally, this is where Rose’s Paris scores beautifully. An unsympathetic character recently, blind to his advances so blatantly unwanted by Juliet (those are abridged here but apparent) this Paris explodes in genuine grief along with the Capulets. Rose’s Romeo-challenging Paris is simply uncomprehending but again Church’s [stage combat director] fight-direction provides a knife-fight-scene remarkable for its desperation.”
- Fringe Review
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Henry V
“Deidre Rose, who impressed as last week’s Paris, manages to scramble dignity as the French Ambassador and some pathos as Mistress Quickly in the pre-embarkation scene with the post-Falstaffian trio, reporting too the old knight’s death.”
- Fringe Review