Talenti Theatrical Company will be presenting its second production this season.The
choice fell on OSCAR, the tragic life of the celebrated writer Oscar Wilde. This drama
has been written and adapted by Alfred Palma and will be directed by Mario Micallef.
From his cell in Reading gaol, Oscar Wilde, sick, humiliated and broken, recounts to the audience how, after the scandal of his sexual relationship with the young Lord Alfred Douglas (Bosie), he had ended up in misery, shame, vilified and cold-shouldered by the London society which once had worshipped him, deprived of his most treasured possessions, and abandoned by his wife Constance who, soon after the scandal, had left him and deprived him of his two sons Vyvyan and Cyril, .all this thanks to Lord Queensbury, Bosie’s father, neurotic, furious, cruel and a drunkard who, after many tireless attempts to tarnish Wilde’s name, had managed to drag him to court with serious accusations of sodomy with regard to his son; and Oscar was jailed for two years with hard labour.
The play proceeds with a series of dialogues in flashback between the four charactors: Oscar, his wife Constance, Bosie and Lord Queensbury, all closely linked with the author’s downfall. Here we will see various aspects from Oscars life, including love, betrayal and hatred.
Taking part: Michael Mangion, Lorianne D’Ugo, Joe Pace and Jean Pierre Cassar.
OSCAR will be presented on the 16th, 17th, 23rd and 24th April, 2016, at St James Cavalier, Valletta. Time: 8.00pm. Cert. 16+
Tickets may be obtained from the same theatre, or www.sjcav.org or Tel: 21223200