The Judas Kiss

“As Wilde, …. Rupert Everett is magnetic ...... this Hampstead Theatre production is quality of the highest  order ....  Wonderful supporting performances …”    Brian Lavery, Irish Independent
 

“ Rupert Everett is superb as  Wilde .......  Freddie Fox turns in a memorably bitchy performance as Bosie”   * * * *  Marc O’Sullivan, Irish Examiner
 

Rupert Everett plays Oscar Wilde with Freddie Fox as Lord Alfred Douglas (Bosie) in David Hare’s compelling drama, The Judas Kiss, about the power of all-consuming love and the cruelty of betrayal currently running at the Gaiety Theatre.  Tickets are selling fast so audiences are advised to book now to avoid disappointment.  This is a strictly limited run before the production heads to London’s West End in January.  This Gaiety Theatre run must end Saturday 20th Oct.  

 

This Hampstead Theatre production presented by Robert Fox, Chichester Festival Theatre and Theatre Royal Bath Productions.  It is 1895 and Wilde’s masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest, is playing in the West End after a triumphant premiere but already the wheels are in motion which will lead to his imprisonment, downfall and vilification. Forced to make a choice between his perfidious lover, Bosie, and freedom, the ever-romantic Wilde embarks on a course towards self-destruction.  The set is designed by Dale Ferguson with costumes by Sue Blane,  lighting by Rick Fisher,  sound by Paul Groothuis and original music by Alan John.

 

Rupert Everett has championed the work of Oscar Wilde on both stage and screen and on both sides of the Atlantic. He shot to fame in Julian Mitchell’s play and subsequent film of Another Country. Since then, his leading screen roles have included the multi award-winning My Best Friend’s Wedding, film versions of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest and An Ideal Husband, Dance with a Stranger, The Madness of King George, St Trinians and he voiced Prince Charming in Shrek. He made his Broadway debut in 2009 in Blithe Spirit and recently starred in Pygmalion in the West End.  In 2012 he will star in the BBC adaptation of Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End.

 

Playing Bosie is Freddie Fox, one of the most exciting young actors in the UK. He starred as Edwin Drood in the BBC’s adaptation of The Mystery of Edwin Drood, played Marilyn in Worried About the Boyand his West End roles include Noel Coward’s Hay Fever and Terence Rattigan’s Cause Célèbre.

Rupert Everett and Freddie Fox will be joined by Alister Cameron, Tom Colley, Ben Hardy, Cal Macaninch and Kirsty Oswald in The Judas Kiss, David Hare’s powerful portrait of the fall from grace of Oscar Wilde.

 

For more than thirty years David Hare has been a major figure on the British and international stage. His award-winning work includes Racing Demon, Plenty, Amy’s View, Skylight, The Permanent Wayand Stuff Happens.  He was Oscar-nominated for The Hours and The Reader. He was the recipient of the 2011 PEN/Pinter Prize, which is awarded to a British writer of outstanding literary merit in memory of Harold Pinter.

 

 

 

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