GROSS INDECENCY: THE THREE TRIALS OF OSCAR WILDE
Written by Moisés Kaufman
Directed by Dave Alan Thomas
January 9 - January 24
Unfolding on the
Studio Stage January 9 - 24, Players by the Sea presents the fascinating
and confounding story of Oscar Wilde's flamboyant swath through English
literature, high society and low life. At the height of his success in
1895, with two of his most brilliant comedies (An Ideal Husband and The
Importance of Being Earnest) reigning in London's West End, Wilde
brought a court action for libel against a brutish aristocrat, the
Marquess of Queensberry. It led to his downfall, imprisonment, and
death in disgrace and exile. Was Wilde willfully self-destructive? Or
pitifully delusional and blinded by love? A martyr to repressive
Victorian hypocrisy? Or the victim of his own egotism and arrogance?
Perhaps all of the above?
Moises Kaufman's riveting docu-drama Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde explores this fateful tale in words drawn directly from the court
records, newspaper accounts of the time and eye-witness memoirs.
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