Review Excerpt
“’WILDE MEETS WHITMAN’….the second of poet Richard Howard’s ‘Two-Part Inventions’ to be staged by my colleague Michael Feingold…. The conversants in ‘Wildflowers,’ an ancient paralyzed Walt Whitman and a young devotee named Oscar Wilde, can exchange only philosophy, not intriguing intimate facts about each other, and doing so must conform to or at least recall our popular images of them. …Randall Duk Kim far exceeded the requirements of his role. How could such a young man become so old, so wise, so gentle, so feeble, his eyes glimmering with the bemused, affectionate interest of the old whose souls have not predeceased them? He was as good an old man as Morris Carnovsky. He should do—indeed, he has almost done—Lear.”
–Carll Tucker, VILLAGE VOICE (8/23/1976)
