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Review I Am Oscar Wilde
From: The Scotsman
Date: 20020810
Author:Kate Copstick
THEATRE: C (venue 34)
TO CAST one weak actor may be regarded as a misfortune. To cast an entire play with weak actors seems like carelessness. But Skullduggery have almost done it. Only Matt Ian Kelly, as a serious but persuasively sensitive Robbie Ross, remotely convinces. Jonathan Hansler's "straight" Oscar is too mild to be Wilde, has all the flamboyant body language of Prince Phillip and delivers his lines like those after-dinner speakers who get jokes from the net.
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