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\u201cA TRUE \u2018TEMPEST\u2019 OF HUMANITY AND WIT\u2026.The Shakespeare Festival tends, understandably enough, to dram the very best of our actors\u2026.And when the casting comes off, the results can be memorable. The Feste-like Randy Kim is quite the Trinculo of my experience.\u201d \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tClive Barnes, NEW YORK TIMES (2\/11\/1974)<\/p>\n
\u201cSHAKESPEARE\u2019S GREAT FAREWELL\u2026.In particular, Randy Kim, that delightful young Oriental actor, was charming as the scatter-brained Trinculo.\u201d
\u2013Richard Watts, NEW YORK POST (2\/11\/1974)<\/b><\/p>\n
\u201c\u2019TEMPEST\u2019 IN A TEAPOT\u2026.Two actors in minor roles, Randy Kim and Richard Ramos, were brilliant exceptions to the surrounding inadequacies. As the jester and drunken butler, the pair were marvelously comic and vital.\u201d
\u2013William Glover, ASSOCIATED PRESS<\/b><\/p>\n
\u201cRandy Kim as a weepy Trinculo and Richard Ramos as a preposterously lordly Stephano make their low-comedy scenes funnier than I would have thought possible.\u201d \u201cPEARLS AMONG THE PITS\u2026.The jewels of the Lincoln Center production are its clowns,Randy Kim as a white-face jester and Richard Ramos as the drunken butler. Their scenes of carousing and impotent plotting are so engrossing and funny, they\u2019d grace any \u2019Tempest.\u2019 Where Ramos bristles in an alcoholic haze, Kim pierces his clowning with sadness and punctuates it with superb timing.\u201d \u201cAll the performances in the Lincoln Center revival are satisfactory, but there are two I admire specially\u2026.I thought Sam Waterston was brilliant. And in the small part of Trinculo, the scatter-brained comic servant, Randy Kim, a young Oriental actor whom I\u2019ve admired since I first saw him in something called, \u2018The Chickencoop Chinaman\u201d in the title role and later as, of all things, Engels in \u2018The Karl Marx Story.\u2019 I\u2019ve long been an ardent fan of his.\u201d \u201cO BOLD NEW PROSPERO!\u2026.But funniest of all is Randy Kim (formerly the Chickencoop Chinaman and the captive Japanese of \u2018Baba Goya\u2019), whose Trinculo is nothing short of inspired. The late Wolcott Gibbs, whose boredom with Shakespearean clowns is well documented, never had the luck to see Mr. Kim\u2019s Trinculo\u2014a limp, sobbing, terrified rag doll in chalky clown makeup, who, once he has recovered, becomes the spirit of mischief itself.\u201d \u201cBECALMED\u2026.Done by clods on a small arena stage meant for experiments, The Tempest becomes imprisoned in a tinny teapot\u2026.To start with the few merits\u2026.There are even two accomplished performances. Richard Ramos is a funny\u2026Stepahno. And Randy Kim\u2014even with extraneous commedia dell-arte makeup and swathed in Medusan headgear and patchwork quilts\u2014manages to bring enough genuine puzzlement and precise comic timing to his Trinculo to equip a thousand lovable clowns.\u201d [aesop_gallery pslightbox=”on” transition=”crossfade” caption=”Photos by George E. Joseph \u00a9 The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts” galleryType=”grid” id=”1006″] Review Excerpts \u201cA TRUE \u2018TEMPEST\u2019 OF HUMANITY AND WIT\u2026.The Shakespeare Festival tends, understandably enough, to dram the very best of our actors\u2026.And when the casting comes off, the results can be memorable. The Feste-like Randy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":268,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-performances"],"metadata":{"_wp_old_date":["2021-12-03"]},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\u2013Julius Novick, SUNDAY NEW YORK TIMES (2\/17\/1974)<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n
\u2013Dick Brukenfeld, VILLAGE VOICE (2\/21\/1974)<\/b><\/p>\n
\u2013Richard Watts, NEW YORK POST (2\/23\/1974)<\/b> <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n
\u2013Edith Oliver, NEW YORKER MAGAZINE (2\/25\/1974)<\/b><\/p>\n
\u2013John Simon, NEW YORK MAGAZINE (2\/25\/1974)<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"