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Ken Ruta Brings Oscar Wilde To Life

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Date: 19970529
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Sun Reporter, The
05-29-1997
Ken Ruta Brings Oscar Wilde To Life

By Eleanor Ohman

The Stage Door Theater at Mason and Geary is miraculously changed into a tawdry Parisian concert hall, and the banished Oscar Wilde is holding forth before a motley audience which has come to laugh, possibly with him, possibly at him, but finds itself staying to weep. It's not that Wilde's vitriolic wit isn't funny -- it is gloriously funny. It's just that all of a sudden the laughter gets caught in the throat, as the enormity of what society can do to a man is revealed.

Actor Ken Ruta proves himself a master of ...

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