Re-Presenting Oscar Wilde: Wilde's Trials, Gross Indecency, and Documentary Spectacle
2002; Johns Hopkins University Press; Volume: 54; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1353/tj.2002.0137
ISSN1086-332X
Autores Tópico(s)Theater, Performance, and Music History
ResumoMoisés Kaufman's hit play Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde re-presents Wilde's most theatrical spectacle for modern-day audiences. This documentary drama, like Kaufman's more recent Laramie Project, arranges research materials into staged exhibition. Concern for sound representational practices led Kaufman to struggle, as he relates, for a method that would do justice to his subject: "[H]ow," he asked himself, "can theatre reconstruct history?"
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