Gross Indecency:
The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde

By Moisés Kaufman and Tectonic Theatre Company

presented at BoHo Theatre @ Heartland Studio
July 27 — August 26, 2007

Directed by
Stephen M. Genovese

Produced by
Thomas J. Samorian and Kevin Bishop

Cast: Jackson Doran, Ryan Guhde, Evan Linder, Andrew Marchetti, Kevin Mayes, Paul Miller, David Roby, Tom Weber,
and Sam Wootten as Oscar Wilde

Jeff Award Winner!
Outstanding Principal Actor in a Play: Sam Wootten

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."
-- Lawrence 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