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\u201cKIM CAPTURES CENTER STAGE IN \u2018UNEVEN\u2019 \u2018RICHARD III\u2019 Shakespeare\u2019s \u2018Richard III\u2019 is a star vehicle, and the undoubted star of this year\u2019s Champlain Shakespeare Festival, Randy Kim, is the lead\u2026.Kim\u2019s acting range and nuance in creating his portrait of this hypnotic and powerful tyrant held center stage at the Arena Theater all night\u2026.Randy Kim\u2019s Richard was dramatically interesting at every turn, and he made a good case for the development from an incredulous Richard with the world playing into his hands to the maddened tyrant, obsessed with his waning power. The wooing of Lady Anne\u2026is a virtually impossible scene; but this Richard brought it off wonderfully. Kim combined his off-hand manner with a perverse sexuality. Also, in Richard\u2019s meditations after his coronation Kim showed an impressive darkening of character\u2026this was a masterful job of acting\u2026the play should be seen both for Randy Kim\u2019s Richard and for a number of dramatically provocative ideas in the production.\u201d
\u2013Tom Simone, BURLINGTON FREE PRESS (8\/20\/1973)<\/b><\/p>\n
\u201cRandy Kim, the brilliant young Korean actor in the title role has transformed his boyish face into an image of malignity without caricature. Richard is a real man, deformed in body, ruthless and cruel, who almost wins by using every device the world rejects to get power\u2026.Kim constructed his character on a carefully conceived series of satisfactions, each more imposing than the last, in which love is a device for power and the real emotional life of the man is based on hate\u2026.He dies unrepentant, a fully realized personality.\u201d
\u2013William Gilbert, BENNINGTON BANNER (8\/25\/1973)<\/b><\/p>\n
\u201c\u2019RICHARD III\u2019 AN EXCITING TALE OF WOE AND FOE\u2026.Randy Kim carries his great reputation from A Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream through his performance as Richard. His facial expressions are fantastically disciplined and he easily establishes the rapport that his character must make with the audience. His power with words earns him a position of great stature even before he begins to reveal his villainous character. He portrays Shakespeare\u2019s anti-hero who greatly believes in his own immortality as a human fantastic. As the play progresses Richard begins to fall apart and in the end painfully realizes that he is very human and very fallible\u2026.This play is a shining star of all the Shakespeare productions that I have seen\u2026.\u201d
\u2013Joseph Olshan, VERMONT CYNIC (9\/20\/1973)<\/b><\/p>\n
\u201c\u2026the whole character was more powerful than before. The opening speeches were commanding, and Richard\u2019s control over his victims more hypnotic as in the wooing of Lady Anne. Late in the play Kim gave the besieged Richard heroic stature in his anger against the approaching rebels, and in the speech after the nightmare he revealed the tormented devil in the king. On the whole Kim got more help from his supporting cast than before\u2026.The thread of continuity is Randy Kim\u2019s Richard, but the surrounding context is now more convincing than at the opening of the run.\u201d
\u2013Tom Simone, BURLINGTON FREE PRESS (9\/7\/1973)<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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