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 characters: Oscar, his wife Constance, Bosie and Lord Queensbury, all closely linked with the author's downfall. Here we will see various aspects from Oscar's life, including love, betrayal and hatred. 

Michael Mangion, Lorianne D'Ugo, Joe Pace and Jean Pierre Cassar will  be taking part in the play which will be presented on 16, 17, 23 and 24 April at St James Cavalier, Valletta at 8pm. The play is certified 16+

For more information and tickets phone on 2122 3200, email: www.sjcav.org