Oscar Wilde
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Check out the National Theatre’s ‘THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST’ (now online) its destined to a camp classic
The Importance of Being Earnest (A Trivial Comedy for Serious People) was Oscar Wilde‘s final play, and it premiered in 1895, literally weeks before he was imprisoned for being a homosexual. The irony is that the play wasn’t part of the prosecution’s evidence, yet over the years its queer subtext has been exploited to make…
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The ‘intrusive chanteuse” Adam Perchard brings BUNBURYING (The Importance of Being Dr Adam Perchard) to CRAZY COQS London
BUNBURYING (The Importance of Being Dr Adam Perchard) is on March 1st at the iconic Crazy Coqs in London’s West End. Dr. Perchard is a self-styled International fashion pirate and cabaret witch, writer, comedian, and ‘intrusive chanteuse” Although we would add a ‘queer quintessential English eccentric. His new one-man-show features hilarious scenes…
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Oscar Wilde’s Dorian Gray will never die
It may have been 130 years since Oscar Wilde’s classic novel The Picture of Dorian Gray was first published but the interest in never ever seems to dim. Maybe Dorian’s obsession with his beauty never fading so that he agrees to sell his soul is what still resounds with us loudly. Definitely, Dorian pursuing…
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Oscar Wilde’s THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY gets a star studded production
I was always taught, and always teach, that drama occurs in the present tense – that theatre’s most valuable asset as a mode of storytelling lay in its presentation of the here and now, a story unfolding before you. This production/adaptation of Wilde’s classic novel makes the bold decision to deliver a retrospective narration: Dorian…
