The Judas Kiss, Cambridge Arts Theatre, 2012.
Cast: Ben Hardy, Kirsty Oswald, Alister Cameron, Cal Macaninch, Rupert Everett, Freddie Fox, Tom Colley.
Writer: David Hare
Director: Neil Armfield
I write this a couple of days before going to see Rupert in something else. I find him a bit complicated and he doesn't always help himself, which probably makes him ideal for playing Oscar Wilde. I struggle with Oscar as a gay icon as he brought it all on himself by showing off and yet as I write that I just think, "closet" and perhaps he did us all a favour. In Rupert's book about the film he made about Oscar he says this play was part of the long term plan to get it made, an audition to financial people really to show that he could do it. I like it and thought he was very good, although I suppose what I remember most was how naked the rest of the cast were.
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