Wilde Without the Boy

8 July - 9 July 2014

“Wilde Without the Boy”

A dramatisation of

‘De Profundis’

by

Oscar Wilde

Directed and dramatised by Gareth Armstrong.

Performed by Gerard Logan

(Olivier Nominee & winner of The Stage’s “Best Actor” at the 2011 Edinburgh Festival).

Music by Simon Slater.

“Wilde Without the boy” is a dramatisation of “De Profundis”, the letter Oscar Wilde wrote in 1897 to his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, from his cell in Reading gaol. Two years previously, Wilde had been imprisoned for acts of gross indecency with other males. Take a glimpse into the bruised, loving soul of one of the greatest geniuses ever to have lived.

“…The gods had given me almost everything….genius….high social position….brilliancy, intellectual daring. Whatever I touched I made beautiful…..I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram…”. Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“Gerard Logan’s one man show is a masterful interpretation of De Profundis…He seeks the emotion behind the barrier: to make feelings real before they’ve transmuted into the impersonality of art…He inhabits the stage with a Titanic presence…An enigma blazing all over the stage” The Daily Info

Double Bill Offer: £20 tickets for Wilde Without the Boy and The Ballad of Reading Gaol. This will apply automatically at checkout.