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The Judas Kiss
Opens: 09/01/2013 Closes: 06/04/2013
Duke of York's Theatre, London
After a sell-out run in Hampstead, David Hare’s drama about the self-destructive choices Oscar Wilde made in the name of love transfers to the West End. Rupert Everett returns as the great writer and wit, in what many have called a career-defining performance, while Freddie Fox continues as Bosie, the petulant lover who obsessed but ultimately betrayed Wilde.
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80 %
Time Out“An intense, witty, and deeply humane play...” Rupert Everett – gay, erudite, and spectacularly outspoken – was clearly born to play Wilde. And whaddya know? He's superb: after the tepid response to the original production, Everett has powered Neil Armfield's revival to rave reviews...
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Whatsonstage.com“A very distinguished addition to the West End list...” Hare’s Oscar is not the flouncing epigrammatist or predatory, pancaked old queen of stage legend and notoriety, but a watchful, thoughtful, considerate literato, sadly cut off from his children, with a tendency towards ageing and immobility...
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Exeunt“Hare’s play is as much – if not more – about class as it is about lov” The first half is rather too languorous: for a scene where the clock is supposedly ticking on Oscar’s escape, it lacks any real sense of urgency. The second half more than redeems things, packing a real emotional punch...
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The Stage“A pitch perfect production...” Fox, in particular, dominates the first half with his brattish sense of entitlement, and his swaggering arrogance goes towards making the fall of Everett’s Wilde all the more sadder and tragic...
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80 %
Evening Standard“Everett makes him dignified and eloquent...” Hare sheds interesting light on a well-known event and shrewdly avoids recycling Wilde’s most famous epigrams. But ultimately The Judas Kiss is worth seeing for Everett, who gives the performance of his career...
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Guardian“The most convincing dramatic portrait of Wilde that I have come across...” I was moved by Hare's searching portrait of a one-sided love that for Wilde proved to be salvation and destroyer alike...
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The Telegraph“Rupert Everett was born to play Oscar Wilde...” Armfield’s production creates an almost mesmeric spell as Wilde drifts towards disaster. He also discovers moments of both gamy humour and eroticism (there is a good deal of male nudity) in this hauntingly sad and touching play...
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The Independent“This revival -- is obligatory viewing...” Everett's magnificently searching performance shows you the nobility and the folly, the humane self-sacrifice and the calamitous obduracy of this stance...
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