A star-studded account of Oscar Wilde’s glittering and controversial career before his trial for homosexual crimes and tragic fall from
grace. Highlights from Oscar’s brilliant comedies such as The Importance
of Being Earnest and stories such as The Picture of Dorian Gray and The
Canterville Ghost are adapted and performed by a cast including Freddie
Fox, Claire Skinner, Anna Chancellor and James Fleet. Wilde enthusiasts
and experts, including Stephen Fry, Wilde’s grandson Merlin Holland and
his latest biographers, provide revelatory accounts of how his own life
informed his work. His Irish roots, his early career, his marriage and
the importance of women as well as men in his life all combine in a
complex and compelling characterisation and celebration that adds flesh
to the bones of a man who is too often caricatured.
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