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The Importance of Being Oscar By Micheál macLiammóir Featuring Michael Judd The Importance of Being Oscar is a compelling theatrical tapestry which reveals the wit, triumph and tragedy of Oscar Wilde, in an explosion of richness, boldness, passion and beauty. This outstandingly skilful tribute, written by Micheál macLiammóir, includes excerpts from the poetry, letters and dramatic writings of Wilde. The irresistible gaiety of Oscar survives to the curtain line, assuring the audience of a vivid and memorable evening of theatre. Michael Judd Micheál macLiammóir has lived and worked as an actor mainly in the US and Ireland. He most recently appeared in Colm McPherson’s The Seafarer at Capital Repertory Theatre in New York. Michael began his career in the US appearing off-Broadway in Grandchild of Kings written and directed by the multiTony Award winning producer and director Harold Prince. He became part of the acclaimed Irish Repertory Theatre Company in New York City appearing in many productions, including Juno & the Paycock, Shadow of a Gunman and Madame Macadam’s Travelling Theatre. Michael was delighted to appear in A Couple of Blaguards written by Frank McCourt, at the Triad Theatre in New York City and later to join the US national tour. Other theatre appearances in New York City include Beckett’s Catastrophe, Da and The Country Boy. He also appeared in The Playboy of the Western World with America’s premier theatre company, the Chicago based Steppenwolf, which has received both national and international recognition. co-founded the Gate Theatre, Dublin with Hilton Edwards in 1928. The Gate went on to become a showcase for modern plays and design with macLiammóir's sets and costume designs key elements of its success. Micheál’s interest in “his ill-starred fellow countryman” Oscar Wilde, was of “long standing” according to Edwards. At his instigation a stone plaque commemorating the centenary of Wilde’s birth was placed upon the Dublin House in which the author was born on the 16th of October 1854. Nearer home he appeared in Brian Friel’s The Home Place, with Tom Courtenay at the Gate Theatre, Dublin and on London’s West End. In Dublin he has also appeared in Dermot Bolger’s, The Consequences of Lightning and The Townlands of Brazil, as part of the acclaimed Ballymun Trilogy, at Axis Arts Centre, and on tour to The National Theatre, Wroclaw, Poland. Other appearances in Ireland include Eugene O’Neill’s Hughie, at Bewley’s Café Theatre, The Green Fool, based on the life of Patrick Kavanagh and Seán O’Casey’s Cock-a-Doodle-Dandy. He has appeared on TV in The Flight of the Earls, and Frongoch for TG4 and ITV Wales; Northanger Abbey for ITV; The Clinic and Killinaskully, for RTE. Radio includes Ulysses, for WBAI Radio NYC, and Cobwebs and Chandeliers for RTE Radio 1. In 1960 Micheál launched his famous one-man show “The Importance of Being Oscar” at the Dublin Theatre Festival, under the direction of Hilton Edwards. In 1963 Irish critics acclaimed the text as “an outstandingly skilful and memorable tribute from one Irish artist to another” (Irish Press) and “every bit as Wildeanly witty as Oscar at his best” (The Irish Times). Over the next fifteen years they took the show all over the world, where it was universally received with great enthusiasm by both audience and press. The magic of Oscar Wilde together with the sincerity of this tribute to him is still as fresh and triumphant today as it was when it first appeared, reaffirming Wilde as a master of English letters and the greatest wit of his generation. It also presents us with a portrait of Wilde the man, revealing that even his most apparently inconsequent utterance held almost invariably some deeper significance.