{"id":7020,"date":"2014-04-05T08:34:17","date_gmt":"2014-04-05T07:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=7020"},"modified":"2014-04-05T08:34:39","modified_gmt":"2014-04-05T07:34:39","slug":"witness-%e2%80%98the-trials-of-oscar-wilde%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2014\/04\/witness-%e2%80%98the-trials-of-oscar-wilde%e2%80%99\/","title":{"rendered":"Witness \u2018The Trials of Oscar Wilde\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Biographical play \u2018The Trials of Oscar Wilde\u2019 unravels at Theatre at The Mill on Thurs 15 May to uncover the ending of arguably one of the greatest literary masters in history. <\/strong><\/h2>\n

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From the triumphant opening night of renowned social comedy \u2018The Importance of Being Earnest\u2019 and peak of Oscar Wilde\u2019s career to a dramatic and public demise that resulted in his arrest and sentencing to two years hard labour.<\/p>\n

This Irish writer and poet created masterpieces such as \u2018An Ideal Husband\u2019, \u2018A Woman of No Importance\u2019 and his only novel \u2018The Picture of Dorian Gray\u2019. As an individual, Oscar Wilde was renowned for his sharp wit, flamboyant dress and glittering conversation, making him one of the biggest celebrities of his time.<\/p>\n

Entangled in a legal conflict with his lover\u2019s father, Oscar Wilde stood trial for gross indecency and laws that governed immoral activities in Victorian England. During his imprisonment the author found the harsh treatments intolerable as he was accustomed to his many creature comforts.<\/p>\n

After serving his sentence, Oscar Wilde departed Britain for Paris, spending his final few years in impoverished exile. With a decline in his health in 1900, he was confined to his hotel until his death. One of his most famous and final quotes was amusingly, \u201cMy wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One of us has got to go.\u201d<\/p>\n

Based on the original court transcripts and Wilde\u2019s own sparkling words, audiences can feel what it was like to be in the company of a flawed genius \u2013 as this less than ideal husband was suddenly reduced to a man of no importance.<\/p>\n

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Find out if Oscar Wilde was harshly treated or whether he was the author of his own downfall on Thurs 15 May for one night only at Theatre at The Mill. Tickets, which cost \u00a315, \u00a313 & \u00a311, can be booked online at www.theatreatthemill.com<\/a> or through Box Office on 028 9034 0202.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Biographical play \u2018The Trials of Oscar Wilde\u2019 unravels at Theatre at The Mill on Thurs 15 May to uncover the ending of arguably one of the greatest literary masters in history. From the triumphant opening night of renowned social comedy \u2018The Importance of Being Earnest\u2019 and peak of Oscar Wilde\u2019s career to a dramatic and … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7020"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7020"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7023,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7020\/revisions\/7023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}