For someone who died 111 years ago, penniless and exiled, Oscar Wilde's having a pretty grand season in New York theater.
His timeless comedy, "The Importance of Being Earnest" is on Broadway and another play, "My Scandalous Life," focusing on his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, is off-Broadway, at the Irish Repertory Theatre.
This play, by Thomas Kilroy, is for those who are such stalwart fans they need to know everything about Wilde. A fascinating man, a talented, smart, acerbic wit, Wilde pretty much forced the British government's hand into convicting him for homosexuality.
Today this may sound strange to an American audience, but Douglas' father had accused Wilde of corrupting his then-21-year-old son. Wilde later sued the elder Douglas for libel, lost and did two years of hard labor in prison.
In the play, a 75-year-old Douglas, known as "Bosie," reflects on his younger days with the man he truly loved.
His timeless comedy, "The Importance of Being Earnest" is on Broadway and another play, "My Scandalous Life," focusing on his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, is off-Broadway, at the Irish Repertory Theatre.
This play, by Thomas Kilroy, is for those who are such stalwart fans they need to know everything about Wilde. A fascinating man, a talented, smart, acerbic wit, Wilde pretty much forced the British government's hand into convicting him for homosexuality.
Today this may sound strange to an American audience, but Douglas' father had accused Wilde of corrupting his then-21-year-old son. Wilde later sued the elder Douglas for libel, lost and did two years of hard labor in prison.
In the play, a 75-year-old Douglas, known as "Bosie," reflects on his younger days with the man he truly loved.
- 2/16/2011
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
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