The student cries in front of the nightingale as he laments the futility of his education in trying to gain the girl’s love. Sitting in her nest in an oak tree, a nightingale hears a student conversing somberly about his sweetheart, who has declared she won’t dance with him unless he gives her a red rose. The student furiously dumps the rose, picks up his metaphysics book, and declares that he will no longer believe in true love. However, when the student gives the professor’s daughter the rose, she rejects him again. The nightingale executes the ritual, suffering a cruel death after witnessing the student’s sorrow and placing his human life above hers. When the nightingale visits the rose trees in the garden, a tree informs the nightingale of a way to grow one, but only if the nightingale is willing to sing the rose’s loveliest song through the night while sinking her heart into a thorn and risk her life. The Nightingale and The Rose SynopsisĪ nightingale overhears a young student lamenting that a professor’s daughter will not dance with him as he did not give her a red rose and decides to help him. Consequently, she discovers that it is possible to create a red rose, but it comes at a grave cost. As she seeks the perfect rose for him, she comes across a rose bush without roses to offer. The nightingale overhears his lament from a solitary oak tree and decides to help the poor young man. “The Nightingale and The Rose” is another one of Wilde’s allegorical fables, about a lovestruck student who must give his lover a red rose to win her heart.
“ The Nightingale and The Rose” is a short story written by Oscar Wilde, part of his collection of short stories titled The Happy Prince and Other Tales, published in May 1888. No doubt Oscar would have approved.Read The Nightingale and The Rose online at “Distilling Wilde’s dark parable into a seamless 45 minutes, The Nightingale and The Rose rides high on Eugyeene Teh’s stylish design, and on magnetic, savagely beautiful performance that flows into moments of amusing camp. Original and true to the writer that inspired it” Chris Boyd, The Australian Jennifer Vuletic plays the nightingale with claw hands and coloratura. “The alto-voiced Brigid Gallacher is deliciously androgynous.
★★★★ “The ingredients that make up this production are a recipe for brilliance. Nicolazzo is the ideal theatre maker to bring these fairy tales, quivering and beautiful, back into the light.” Tim Byrne, Time Out ★★★★ “Director Stephen Nicolazzo has constructed an exquisite ode to Romanticism in this adaptation, as detailed and precise as anything he’s put on stage before.
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