Oscar Wilde
iPhoto caption: Members of the company of 'The Importance of Being Earnest.' Photo by Dahlia Katz.
In a world where I wasn’t out, Wilde was there to comfort me with an aesthetic pleasure others couldn’t see. Now, I’ve been out for some time, and Earnest is with me in a new way, as a less lonely act — and, now, a loud celebration of the possibilities of queerness.
iPhoto caption: Mirabella Sundar Singh as Cecily Cardew and James Daly as Algernon Moncrieff in 'The Importance of Being Earnest' at the Grand Theatre. Photo by Dahlia Katz.
Q&A: In London, the Grand’s Importance of Being Earnest highlights the play’s layers of queerness
"The entire physical production has been enacted to get people to try to keep their ears and their eyes open to all the code that Wilde has placed into the play," says director Alistair Newton.
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