Daffodil Girls

Fun House Theatre & Film, Plano, Texas

"The set design by Joseph Cummings is so good it made me want a tree house like that of my very own. Outside of the tree house is the local watering hole. In this case it is the local lemonade stand, staffed by the young girls that serve the patrons their drinks. The lemonade stand looks like what you would picture any neighborhood lemonade stand to be. Camouflage -type netting hangs over the down stage right area. The genius of this set design, though, is what is inside the tree house. 

Picture in your mind the board room or conference room of a high-powered company, in which the over-stressed sales personnel meet to make deals and brag about the deals they have made. Now, replace that vision with a room that includes slogans on the walls, reminding you of less polished versions of motivational sayings in any sales conference room, wall color choices that blend young innocence with the corporate world, and the ironic touch of using stacks of cookie boxes for the desks and furniture."
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Joel Taylor-The Column

"Rapp and Swearingen showed off some serious growth by pulling the concept and the script off, aided well by set designer Joseph Cummings and master carpenter Ben Bryant."
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Kris Noteboom- Theatre Jones

​"Watch a pre-teen deliver a slightly more age-appropriate version of the “coffee’s for closers” speech and then try to tell me Jeff Swearingen isn’t a genius. Adapting Mamet’s tense, foul-mouthed real estate play for adorable girls selling cookies is a nice hook, but pulling it off with a remarkably talented young cast and a thoughtful set design is definitely something to be praised for."

​Lindsey Wilson-D Front Row

​"Within a splendidly detailed tree house set by Joseph Cummings."
Lindsey Wilson-D Front Row

Awards

Best Set Design
Joel Taylor-The Column

Best Play
D Magazine

Best New Play
Jeff Swearingen (Director)
Joseph Cummings (Set Designer)
Alexandra Bonifield-DFW Theatre Critics Forum Awards

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