Gross Indecency

Winner of the Lambda Literary Award <p/>In this stunning work of theater Moises Kaufman turns the trials of Oscar Wilde into a riveting human and intellectual drama. <p/>In April 1895 Oscar Wilde brought a libel suit against the Marquess of Queensberry 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. Expertly interweaving courtroom testimony with excerpts from Wilde's writings and the words of his contemporaries <i>Gross Indecency</i> unveils its subject in all his genius and human frailty his age in all its complacency and repression. The result is a play that will be read and studied for decades to come.