Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy
Even so, we couldn’t possibly have anticipated the level of his brilliant, manic energy in the role.
News about Geoffrey’s acting.
Review: Denver Center Theatre Company’s elegantly staged “Romeo & Juliet” leaves a lingering impression
/in Acting, Fight Directing, Reviews /by adminThe sword fight that ends with Mercutio’s death has satisfyingly theatrical fury and flash.
Feature: Denver’s Geoffrey Kent, actor and fight director for theater companies
/in Acting, Directing, Features, Fight Directing /by adminGeoffrey Kent is sitting in a quiet Boulder restaurant making a face as he recounts a fall he took during the Colorado Shakespeare Festival’s production of the ridiculously pleasurable farce “Noises Off.” Don’t fret. It was a planned fall… sort of…
Review: Noises Off is a resounding success
/in Acting, Reviews /by adminAs Garry, Geoffrey Kent is called on to hop up a set of stairs with his shoelaces tied together, fall down the same stairs and tumble over half the furniture, and he does it with such aplomb that the entire audience bursts into applause when he finally comes to rest.
Review: Colorado Shakespeare Festival’s Noises Off is chock-full of laughs
/in Acting, Reviews /by admin…and certainly because of Geoffrey Kent’s hysterical — and by that I mean I stopped being able to breathe because I was laughing so hard at some of his bits — Garry Lejune.
Best Performance by an Actor in a Shakespeare Tragedy
/in Acting, Awards /by adminMercutio is one hell of a role, with some of the best speeches anywhere in Shakespeare. All in All, Kent’s performance was a tour de force.
Review: Violent delights have violent ends
/in Acting, Reviews /by adminGeoffrey Kent delivers the play’s best performance as Mercutio – all of the work’s violence, love and outsized emotion are embodied in his intelligent and affecting characterization.
Review: Romeo and Juliet at CSF is the best in years
/in Acting, Fight Directing, Reviews /by adminGeoffrey Kent’s Mercutio is juicy, funny and energetic. His rendition of the Queen Mab speech is superb — a textbook example of how to vivify a monologue everyone has heard a thousand times before — as is the way he handles Mercutio’s death with progressively weakening bursts of rage and frustration rather than the usual gallant attempt at humor.
Review: Santaland Diaries wraps up the holiday in humor
/in Acting, Reviews /by adminTalented and leading-man handsome, with a big voice and presence, he booms some of the lines, throws himself on the floor to impersonate a tantruming infant, and twinkles relentlessly at the audience.
Review: Othello and Jell-O, this farce has it all
/in Acting, Reviews /by adminIt’s hard to decide which of them is silliest. Mueller exuberantly portrays the heroines, Kent delights in taking every opportunity to create more confusion, and Mattfeld is soon is sucked into the accelerating chaos. Their inspired madness is infectious.