Wilde Without The Boy

A dramatisation of ‘De Profundis’ by Oscar Wilde
Directed and dramatised by Gareth Armstrong
Performed by Gerard Logan (Olivier Nominee)
Music by Simon Slater
Lighting by Maximilian Spielbichler

Wilde Without the Boy is a dramatisation of “De Profundis”, the bitterly passionate letter Oscar Wilde wrote to his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, from his cell in Reading gaol. Two years previously, Wilde had been imprisoned for gross indecency with other males. Painfully brilliant and passionate, this is a glimpse into the bruised, loving soul of one of the greatest geniuses ever to have lived.

“...The gods had given me almost everything....Whatever I touched I made beautiful.....I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram...” - Oscar Wilde, De Profundis