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Buggy Makes for a Wilde Night

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From: Irish Voice
Date: 20010213
Author:Barth, Diana

Barth, Diana
Irish Voice
02-13-2001
Buggy Makes for a Wilde Night

THEATER REVIEW BY DIANA BARTH

TO celebrate the centenary of Oscar Wilde's death, the Irish Repertory
Theatre is offering a reprise of Michael MacLiammoir's one-person show, The
Importance of Being Oscar, not seen in New York since the author himself
performed it on Broadway in the 1960s, following its successful debut at
Dublin's Gaiety Theatre. (An important personage in Irish theatrical
history, MacLiammoir co-founded Dublin's Gate Theatre).

Now starring noted Irish actor Niall Buggy (who had seen the original
Gaiety production as a ...

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