By Moises Kaufman
In April 1895 Oscar Wilde brought a libel suit against the Marquess of Queensbury, 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 was on trial for a vision of art that outraged Victorian propriety and
- implicitly - for acts of -  "Gross Indeceny"

Coordinated by ensemble member - Ray Cunha









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