Oscar Wilde

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T1828568106 (SHAW04) Producer Oscar Wilde Productions. Director Mike Read. Director Steven Innes-Etherington (music). Performer Peter Blake (Oscar). Performer Anita Louise Combe (Constance). Performer Chris Corcoran (Marquess of Queensbury).
13 Oct 04 to 19 Oct 04	The Shaw Theatre, Inner London :: V01704341023 listing details L1501418652

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Musical :: A musical celebrating the 150th anniversary of Oscar Wilde's birth. A musical about the final six years in the tragic life of the celebrated playwright. By the early 1890s. the Dublin-born wit, raconteur and author had become the darling of the West End stage through A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest, with several successful shows running concurrently. But his spectacular fall from grace, engineered by the Marquess of Queensberry, was swift, catastrophic and devastating. Brutalised by his time in jail, Oscar travelled to France, never to return or be allowed to see his young sons. Even a continuing dalliance with Queensberry's dilletante son, Lord Alfred Douglas, cannot save the doomed literary giant...

Book by	Mike Read
Music	Mike Read
Lyrics	Mike Read