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\u201c\u2019\u2019DREAM\u2019 CALLED THEATRICAL TRIUMPH\u2019\u2026.Randall Duk Kim as Puck is a darling, clever little devil, scampering and uttering weird sounds\u201d
\u2013Henry Gould, OUR TOWN NEWS (10\/3\/1975)<\/b><\/p>\n
\u201c\u2026Randall Duk Kim\u2019s Puck is that rather dark and partly malicious little imp that lurks inside most of us, and is just yearning to get out and cause trouble. It works, and works wonderfully\u2026.\u201d
\u2013Bruce Henderson, NEW HAVEN REGISTER (10\/5\/1975)<\/b><\/p>\n
\u201c\u2026Randall Duk Kim is a perfect Puck. His energy is boundless; he is ever in motion, the personification of good natured mischief; as agile as a monkey; apt, ingenious, comic, spontaneous.\u201d
\u2013W.F.G., MORNING RECORD (10\/6\/1975)<\/b><\/p>\n
\u201c\u2019THE YALE REP\u2019S RECURRING \u2018DREAM\u2019\u2019\u2026.Philip Kerr is a snakey Oberon. He crawls on stage from nether recesses to rule his forest kingdom with the help of Randy Kim as Puck, a coy, cooing. Mewing goblin whose grimaces, growls, and Cheshire-cat grins give evanescence to the character. Kim is at once endearing and uncanny\u2026.\u201d
\u2013Rod Downey, YALE GRADUATE PROFESSIONAL (10\/8\/1975)<\/b><\/p>\n
\u201c\u2019ONE NOT TO BE MISSED\/\u2019DREAM\u2019: IMAGINATVE, WELL DONE\u2019\u2026.Puck, played by Randall Duk Kim is extraordinary, and more animal-magic spirit than person. He has a great face and grimaces under his make-up for a real Puck look\u2026.\u201d
\u2013Grace Helm, MILFORD CITIZEN (10\/9\/1975)<\/b><\/p>\n
\u201c\u2026The character of \u2018PUCK\u2019 is presented through the artistry of Randall Duk Kim and shall not be forgotten for some time\u2026.\u201d
\u2013Donald Keller, WEST HAVEN CITY NEWS (10\/9\/1975)<\/b><\/p>\n
\u201c\u2019DREAM RECURS AT YALE REP\u2019\u2026.Randall Duk Kim is the new Puck, and he is splendid. His witty, skittish, fleet-footed Puck, horned and befurred, is part human, part fairy, part animal, part bird, with a generous dollop pf Pan. Bravo!\u201d \u201c\u2026THE INTERPRETATION THIS YEAR BY Randall Duk Kim is far more satisfying. Mr. Kim, instead of stressing Puck\u2019s meanness, plays up the mischievous aspect and thus captures more fully the nature of the character. True, he goes growling and hissing and squirming about the stage, but one is constantly aware that his actions are far from spiteful; they\u2019re playful. So there\u2019s one big plus\u2026.\u201d \u201c\u2026Randall Duk Kim is, for this playgoer, a quite different Puck. For one thing he is got up as a faun and nips about the stage emitting small animal noises along with conventional human speech. This is a Puck whose traditional mischievousness borders on the malevolent, yet at all times is he outrageously funny. Kim is a fine actor, who uses his body as a super tool of his trade\u2026.\u201d \u201c\u2026The new Puck is Randall Duk Kim\u2026.There is a rather weird note that does infect this Oriental actor\u2019s approach but it has entity and force and makes the revels more than palatable\u2026.\u201d \u201c\u2026As the linchpin for it all, Randall Duk Kim\u2019s Puck emphasizes the streaks of cruelty and caprice in this legendary character. Duk Kim is marvelously mischievous, acrobatic and animal-like. Enthusiastically, he toys with and even forces some of the rhyme in his lines. And his closing, feline, self-satisfied grin is quite suitable yet unexpectedly downbeat\u2026.\u201d \u201c\u2019MIDSUMMER NIGHT\u2019S HODGEPODGE\u2019\u2026.Puck\u2014played by Randall Duk Kim\u2014is a faun, with hairy legs and little horns: impishly charming but never overcute\u2026.\u201d \u201c\u2019DREAM WORLD\u2019\u2026Randall Duk Kim makes Puck a touching blend of an elfin Nijinsky and a junior Pan\u2026.\u201d \u201c\u2019YALE RE-STAGES A FUNNIER MIDSUMMER\u2019\u2026.THE MOST important spirit, of course, is Robin Goodfellow, better known as Puck. He is Oberon\u2019s first mate\u2014a Peter Lorre playing to a Sidney Greenstreet. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t Puck\u2019s change of actor is the most fortunate for the entire play, for Randall Duk Kim makes it look like Shakespeare wrote the part for him. Mr. Kim retains in Puck a touch of the animalism of the other fairies. He\u2019s sly and crafty\u2014both in the \u2018cat\u2019 sense and the human sense. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t Under Mr. Kim\u2019s skillful playing, Puck becomes a semi-tamed, mischievous pet who has quick wits and operates on a human level much of the time. \t\t\t\t In one word, Mr. Kim is extraordinary\u2026.\u201d [aesop_gallery pslightbox=”on” transition=”crossfade” caption=”Photos by Eugene Cook” galleryType=”grid” id=”1028″] Review Excerpts \u201c\u2019\u2019DREAM\u2019 CALLED THEATRICAL TRIUMPH\u2019\u2026.Randall Duk Kim as Puck is a darling, clever little devil, scampering and uttering weird sounds\u201d \u2013Henry Gould, OUR TOWN NEWS (10\/3\/1975) \u201c\u2026Randall Duk Kim\u2019s Puck is that rather dark and partly malicious little imp […]<\/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-1208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-performances"],"metadata":{"_wp_old_date":["2021-12-03","1975-09-01"]},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\u2013Markland Taylor, NEW HAVEN REGISTER (10\/9\/1975)<\/b> <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n
\u2013Robert M. Isaacs, MILFORD CITIZEN (10\/9\/1975)<\/b><\/p>\n
\u2013Jeanne Davis, WESTPORT NEWS (10\/10\/1975)<\/b><\/p>\n
\u2013Edgar Kloten, WEST HARTFORD NEWS (10\/16\/1975)<\/b><\/p>\n
\u2013Joan Fleckenstein, TORRINGTON REGISTER (10\/18\/1975)<\/b><\/p>\n
\u2013Julius Novick, VILLAGE VOICE (10\/20\/1975)<\/b><\/p>\n
\u2013Jack Kroll, NEWSWEEK (10\/20\/1975)<\/b><\/p>\n
\u2013Joseph Pronechen, TRUMBULL TIMES (10\/23\/1975)<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"