When the storm has blacked your sky Intuition crucify When the eagle strips your reign Assassinate the living flame. Eye Iwatch. The kiss of Judas, also known (especially in art) as the Betrayal of Christ, is how Judas identified Jesus to the multitude with swords and clubs who had come from. The Judas kiss Judas lives recite this vow I've become your new god now Follow you from dawn of time Whisper thoughts into your mind Watched your towers hit the ground.
The Judas Kiss – review . Now, in Neil Armfield's fine revival, it looks a much richer play – confirming Wilde's aphorism that . The Wilde that emerges is a multifaceted character: one who can either be admired for his uncompromising moral integrity, or pitied for his wilful capacity for self- destruction. Hare focuses on two key moments. We first see Wilde holed up in the Cadogan hotel in 1. Marquess of Queensberry: common sense argues that he flee to France to escape arrest, but Wilde claims that flight would represent an abject surrender to English hypocrisy and a denial of his love for Bosie.
In the second half, we see the consequences of Wilde's obduracy. After his two- year jail sentence, he is now reunited with Bosie in Naples, but is a shrunken, passive figure who lives the life of a penurious exile largely unable to write. South Park: The Fractured But Whole there.
Although sustained by Bosie's presence, Wilde knows that he ultimately faces betrayal. The one flaw in Hare's concept is that Bosie is such a childish hysteric we never see the redeeming qualities that inspired Wilde's love. In other respects, this is the most convincing dramatic portrait of Wilde that I have come across – one that captures him as both romantic individualist and tragic victim. It also allows Rupert Everett to give the performance of his career. Everett's Wilde is the big, fleshy, heavy- jowled figure we see in the later portraits and the Max Beerbohm cartoons. But there is deep pathos in the way his blubbery features crumple into tears when confronted by the generosity of hotel servants, and a rich vein of anger when, shunned by his friends and isolated from his children, he rails against society's demand for penance as well as punishment. Yet Everett never lets us forget Wilde's enduring intelligence: when the treacherous Bosie denies he was ever homosexual, Everett sardonically mutters: .
I wasn't crazy about Dale Ferguson's design, which, with its rumpled- velvet surround for the Cadogan hotel, proves tricky for the actors to negotiate. But I was moved by Hare's searching portrait of a one- sided love that for Wilde proved to be salvation and destroyer alike. What have you been to see lately? Tell us about it on Twitter using #Gdn.
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