Cahoots
Theatre Company
at
the
Cramphorn
Theatre
27.02.2016
In
a remarkable tour-de-force, Gerard Logan uses Oscar Wilde's words to
give a moving insight into the man behind the scandals and the stage
hits.
De
Profundis is his bitter letter to Lord Alfred Douglas. The poet's
tragic infatuation with this feckless boy is the cause of his
imprisonment, and yet the tone is often rueful, wounded rather than
wrathful. In his bare prison cell, the mask can be removed as he
mourns his lost love and stares hopelessly at a future of penury and
exile.
And
in that exile, he writes The Ballad of Reading Gaol, recalling in
verse the last days of a fellow prisoner condemned to hang.
Logan's
voice is richly expressive, his face suggesting something of the pain
which lies deeper than words.
Gareth
Armstrong adapts and directs this memorable evening, which brings the
audience a little closer to the flawed genius of Oscar Wilde.
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