Gross Indecency:
The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde
By Moisés Kaufman and Tectonic Theatre Company
Directed by Stephen M. Genovese
Produced by Thomas J. Samorian and Kevin Bishop
Played at BoHo Theatre @ Heartland Studio
July 27, 2007 through August 26, 2007.
Jeff Recommended
In April 1895 Oscar Wilde brought a libel suit against the
Marquess of Queensbury, the father of his youthful lover, who
had publicly maligned him as a sodomite. In doing so, England's
reigning man of letters set in motion a series of events that would
culminate in his ruin and imprisonment. For within a year the
bewildered Wilde himself was on trial for acts of "gross indecency"
and -implicitly- for a vision of art that outraged Victorian propriety.
In this stunning work of theater-a smash hit Off Broadway- Moisés
Kaufman turned the trials of Oscar Wilde into a riveting human and
intellectual drama.
"Genovese's terrific nine-man cast transforms a history lesson into
an immediate confrontation between art and life."
-L. Bommer, Chicago Reader (Highly Recommended)
The actors "do not disappoint." A "powerful and joyous revelation."
-Scotty Zacher, Gay Chicago Magazine ***
"Well paced and fluid ... never a dull moment."
-Fabrizio Alemeda, New City
"Sam Wootten has (Wilde) down pat"
-Kay Daly, TimeOut Chicago
Gross Indecency featured:
Jackson Doran, Ryan Guhde,
Evan Linder, Andrew Marchetti,
Kevin Mayes, Paul Miller,
David Roby, Tom Weber,
and Sam Wootten as Oscar Wilde.
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