Gross Indecency by Moises Kaufman
Winner of the Lambda Literary Award In this stunning work of theater, Moises Kaufman turns the trials of Oscar Wilde into a riveting human and intellectual drama. In April 1895 Oscar Wilde brought a libel suit against the Marquess of Queensberry, 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 himself was on trial for acts of gross indecency and, implicitly--for a vision of art that outraged Victorian propriety. Expertly interweaving courtroom testimony with excerpts from Wilde's writings and the words of his contemporaries, Gross Indecency unveils its subject in all his genius and human frailty, his age in all its complacency and repression. The result is a play that will be read and studied for decades to come.
Tectonic Theater Project is his co-founder and artistic director. Kaufman's plays Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde and The Laramie Project (which he co-wrote with members of Tectonic Theater) have been among the most widely seen in the United States in recent years. He's also the creator of the Tony Award-winning play 33 Variations, as well as One Arm (his adaptation of Tennessee Williams' screenplay of the same name), and London Mosquitoes, a short play. Kaufman has directed multiple Broadway plays, including Doug Wright's Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning I Am My Own Wife, for which he received an Obie Award for direction as well as Tony, Outer Critics, Lucille Lortell, and Drama Desk Award nominations.
The Laramie Project was adapted into a film by Kaufman, which premiered on HBO and was a Sundance Film Festival opening night selection in 2002. Kaufman is a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| EAN | 9781580817318 |
| Title | Gross Indecency |
| Release date | 2010-05-25 |
| Format | Audiobook |
| Studio | Us Imports |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Note | Unavailable |
| By (author) | Moises Kaufman |