ANDREW WILDE CRITICAL QUOTABLES FILM AND TELEVISION see Internet Movie Database CITZ Performances Year Name of Play Character 1980 The Battlefield Conte 1980 Caucasian Chalk Circle The Grand Duke 1981 Desperado Corner Big Larry 1978 Dick Wittington The Nightwatchman 1980 Don Juan Juan 1993 Don Juan Don Juan 1985 Faust Mephisto 1981 Hamlet Hamlet 1990 The Housekeeper Fabrizio 1984 Judith Arthur 1981 Madame Louise Mr. Boot Snr 1995 Persons Unknown Lord Stanhope 1980 A Waste of Time M. Le Duc De Guermantes 1994 Torquato Tasso Duke Alfonso II

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Don Juan , Glasgow Citizens Company, 1993

". . . But even more impressive, in the end, is the play's penetrating assessment of the character of the Don, as interesting and complex an account of self-excusing, blame-shifting, morally inadequate yet somehow compelling masculinity as the 18th century can have produced. Andrew Wilde captures this strange combination of moral repulsiveness and animal vitality in a dangerous but thrilling performance teetering right on the verge of anachronistic self-indulgence. . . ."

". . . Andrew Wilde as Don Juan (arriving in Castile from Naples) works out his own devious relationships, including that with the audience. He gives a remarkably sinuous and quick-witted performance. His rancid charm finally explodes into the emotional stratosphere he last entered as Goethe's Faust here in 1985. A real gem. . . . . ."

The Housekeeper, Glasgow Citizens Company, 1990

". . . Andrew Wilde gives one of the strongest performances . . . achieves a lovely fluid balance between deserving our ridicule one moment, our sympathies the next. He stutters, he fumbles, he roars, he even falls over all to great effect - but he also shows a vulnerability and a sad longing for affection that catches the true perception of Goldoni's somewhat tragic comedy. . . ."

Hamlet , Glasgow Citizens Company, 1981

". . . The three inmates were Hamlet, Horatio, and Queen Gertred; Ofelia was a nurse dispensing drugs and sedatives.

What promised to be a piece of academic excavation was overtaken by a consistent vision (asylums had not yet become a design cliche). Andrew Wilde's rasping nutcase of a Hamlet was fiercely committed; a reluctant hero but a powerfully impatient patient. . . ."