![]() ![]() “Distilling Wilde’s dark parable into a seamless 45 minutes, The Nightingale and The Rose rides high on Eugyeene Teh’s stylish design, and on magnetic, savagely beautiful performance that flows into moments of amusing camp. Original and true to the writer that inspired it” Chris Boyd, The Australian Jennifer Vuletic plays the nightingale with claw hands and coloratura. Love is what the Student claims to feel for the girl, and it is also what inspires the Nightingale to sacrifice her life to create a red rose doing so, she thinks, will help the Student win his sweethearts affection. “The alto-voiced Brigid Gallacher is deliciously androgynous. From start to finish, 'The Nightingale and the Rose' is a story about the nature of love. Victorian author Oscar Wilde is known both as a playwright and prose author. ★★★★ “The ingredients that make up this production are a recipe for brilliance. A nightingale selflessly sacrifices herself to help a young student win the love of his professor’s daughter, but both the professor’s daughter and the young student prove unworthy of her sacrifice. ![]() ![]() Nicolazzo is the ideal theatre maker to bring these fairy tales, quivering and beautiful, back into the light.” Tim Byrne, Time Out ![]() ★★★★ “Director Stephen Nicolazzo has constructed an exquisite ode to Romanticism in this adaptation, as detailed and precise as anything he’s put on stage before. 'Why, anyone can have common sense, provided that they have. Featured in: Keith Gow’s Top 20 Theatre Shows of 2018 and Across The Aisle’s standout performances of 2018. A uniquely personal collection of Oscar Wildes stories, introduced by his very own grandson. ![]()
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