![]() ![]() The Nightingale and the Rose at Theatre Works is the second in a projected trilogy of Wilde adaptations by Little Ones Theatre. The Nightingale and the Rose, a short, elegant fable about the price of art and love (for Wilde, these were often synonyms) is a case in point. His short story collections, The Happy Prince and Other Stories and The House of Pomegranates, demonstrate his poise: he reins in an extravagance of metaphor and feeling with a dark wit and a dose of bitter realism. (The exception, of course, is The Ballad of Reading Gaol, with its notably starker diction.)Įven in his prose Wilde’s is a dangerous poetry, seductively theatrical in its rhythms, unafraid of risking the edge of self-parody. Add the intricate prosody Wilde favoured in his poems and you’re in danger of suffocating to death. They glow deeply in his plays and prose: I suspect because the plainer rhythms prevent his diction, always trembling along the verge of arch, from tipping over into jingly kitsch. ![]() Oscar Wilde is one of those writers whose poetic gifts seldom shone to advantage in his poetry. 2.5K Alison Croggon reviews Little Ones Theatre’s The Nightingale and the Rose ![]()
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