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Article: Play recounts the ruination of Oscar Wilde.(Entertainment)(Moises Kaufman's script uses the story to examine the act of censorship Wayne Eastburn
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- February 23, 2003
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Byline: Fred Crafts The Register-Guard
When the Marquis of Queensbury in early 1895 slipped an accusatory note about the writer Oscar Wilde to a waiter at his club, he set in motion a series of events that would eventually result in Wilde going to jail, artists squirming under the threat of censorship and Moises Kaufman writing a provocative play dealing with all of that.
To demonstrate how the celebrated man of letters fell from grace, Kaufman in "Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde" gets down to the heart of the matter through trial transcripts, personal correspondence, interviews and other source material.
Joe Zingo, co-artistic ...