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Article: Playwright exposes Wilde's fall in 'Gross Indecency'.
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- The Boston Herald
- Article date:
- September 8, 1998
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Decades before stand-up comics became hip, Oscar Wilde ruled as king of the wisecracks.
What's amazing is that 100 years after his death, Wilde's witticisms still tickle the funny bone, and productions of his plays "The Importance of Being Earnest,' "An Ideal Husband" and "Lady Windemere's Fan" continue to be popular. Lately, Wilde's personal rise to fame and tragic fall have inspired new examinations of the man behind the epigrams.
One of the most fascinating windows into Wilde comes not from a scholarly study or fictionalized look back, but a documentary play that feels refreshingly contemporary, even as it examines the incidents of a century ago. ...