Judas Kiss, The
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Mar 19, 2000
Closed Apr 16, 2000
Opened Mar 19, 2000
Closed Apr 16, 2000
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Oscar Wilde's relationship wiht Lord Alfred Douglas has inspired contemporary writers for decades. In this heartbreaking account of a love tested to destruction, David Hare presents his powerful interpretation of what may have happened behind closed doors. This wildly intellegent play lays bare the drama of two critical moments in Wilde's last years: the day he decides to stay in England and face imprisonment and the night after his release, two years later when his lover for whom he risked and lost everything betrays him. THE JUDAS KISS presents the consequences of taking an uncompromising moral position in a world defined by fear, expedience and conformity.
Please note: this production contains adult situations and both male and female nudity.
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Pity the poor actors at the Lyric who have to dig their way through David Hare's mostly leaden, occasionally poetic, The Judas Kiss, a fictional evocation of two nights in the life of Oscar Wilde: the eve of his arrest for "gross indecency" and the night his love, Lord Alfred "Bosie" Douglas, betrays him (thus the Judas in the title). The actors pitch Hare's words like coal into the furnace of a train in an attempt to get some velocity out of the vehicle, but do not generate much fire and acceleration for all their work. And the two gratuitous nude scenes meant to raise the temperature are unsuccessful as well.
Overall, the direction of this production (by Spiro Veloudos) feels like pai[...]