Oscar Wildes Women

In this drama with smiles and laughter, two Cheltenham women cheer up Oscar Wilde, who is dying, exiled, lonely and confused, in Paris.

Amelia and Christina, campaigners for women's voting rights, seek Oscar's support. Christina believes that poems,songs, and marches will secure women's suffrage. But Amelia insists on something more dramatic: like plays or even civil disobedience. Oscar's response, at first amusing and bemusing, becomes disruptive until it brings reconciliation about the suffrage movement's future.

Howard's seventh Playhouse New Drama production is devised as a fundraiser for Cheltenham Poetry Festival and the Playhouse.

The event will be held in the Playhouse Main Stage.