For the past nine years since it was founded The Williams Project, a national professional theatre ensemble in Seattle, has fulfilled its mission of building ambitiously re-imagined productions of American plays, while paying artists a living wage.
What caught our attention was their next production Champagne + Sodomy ‘The Art And Crime of Oscar Wilde’. It’s billed as A Developmental Workshop and Theatrical Event Featuring Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde By Moisés Kaufman and The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Directed by Ryan Guzzo Purcell
It’s an immersive theatrical event, and you’ll be thrust from the decadent drawing room to the reactionary courtroom with a champagne flute still in your hand. Pairing Wilde’s beloved comedy The Importance of Being Earnest with the story of his persecution by the state, as told in Moisés Kaufman’s docu-play Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, The Williams Project presents an evening-length, genre-defying performance exploring how our culture is obsessed with queer art but terrified of the queers who make it.
July 28-August 5, 2023 Base: Experimental Arts + Space 6520 5th Ave S #122, Seattle, WA 98108
Labels: 2023, Champagne and Sodomy, Seattle, The Art and Crime of Oscar Wilde, The Williams Project
