In a 2007 interview in the RSAMD's Academy magazine David stated that Twelve Angry Men was his favourite movie and in a DWM interview he said that Twelve Angry Men would be a remake of a film he would like to star in.
Twelve Angry Men was a play first by Reginald Rose and David appeared in a production of the play in 1990 while he was at drama school. David played Juror No. 8, the lead, this is the role Henry Fonda portrays in the film. David was part of a troope called Theatre Positive Scotland and all money raised during the production was donated to Scottish Aids Monitor.
This is a great description of the play written by Keith Bruce of The Herald:
"I wish I could do as much justice to this production of Twelve Angry Men as Theatre Positive has done to the play. Before the performance began, the sparse set -- large table, 12 chairs, clock, water cooler, fan -- evoked vague memories of the film with Henry Fonda. Within minutes of the performance beginning, all such echoes had faded as this terse, tense, fidgety production began to grip its audience.
It would be all too easy for a play based on the deliberations of a jury -- the eponymous Twelve Angry Men -- to become a static, Last Supper affair. This did not happen here. Constant movement highlighted and underpinned the dialogue, conspiring with it to scrape and chip away at the veneers of civilisation, its constant, fractious effect exacerbating the mounting heat and anger. Pens were tapped, gum chewed, smoke rings blown, feet stamped in tattoos of frustrated impatience.
Just occasionally, the tension was slackened -- with a joke, a moment of reason, or a point at which the jurors discussed the mundane aspects of their own interests or jobs. The audience visibly relaxed, or laughed nervously, always aware that without warning the elastic band between them and the company would be flexed once more. This interaction between actors and audience was one of the major strengths of the production, and added a new dimension to a play usually seen in the screen version.
It's a play of big themes: issues often seen in tandem, yet somehow antithetical. Justice and the law, ignorance and prejudice, wisdom and experience, mind and intellect. MacCarthy's shadow, Hitchcock-like, stalks their exploration. For that reason if for no other, it was worth the cast's attempts at various forms of American accent -- even if those accents, particularly in moments of rage, lapsed occasionally into Glaswegian.
None of the jurors in the play is addressed by name, and this is reflected in the programme notes, where each is listed by number. It is a production which relies on equally intelligent individual performances combining in a well choreographed whole of dialogue and body language. The 13 actors are all students at RSAMD. Each of them match the challenge. But director Ian Reekie set it, and has seen it fulfilled in this outstanding production."