Promethean welcomes the entire cast and production staff of Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, this season’s Promethean Spark production.
Cast:
Jamie Bragg**
Oscar Wilde
Heather Smith*
Lord Alfred Douglas
Kevin Sheehan
Sir Edward Clark & Others
Jennifer Mickelson
Narrator, Atkins, Wright & Others
Steve Lords
Narrator, George Bernard Shaw, Moises Kaufman & Others
Cameron Feagin**
Edward Carson & Narrator
Ross Frawley
Queensberry, Gill, Lockwood & Narrator
Kraig Kelsey
Narrator, Mavor, Marvin Taylor & Others
Kat Evans
Narrator, Parker, Harris & Others
Production Staff:
Director: Brian Pastor*
Assistant Director: Tom Murphy*
Stage Manager: Lindsey Miller
Set/Props Designer: Jeremiah Barr*
Lighting Designer: Liz Sutherland
Costume Designer: Uriel Gomez
Composer: Matthew Bivins
Dialect Coach: Catherine Gillespie**
Movement Coordinator: Lyndsay Kane
Casting Associate: Charlie Hano
*Indicates PTE Ensemble Member
**Indicates PTE Artistic Associate
A note from Brian Pastor:
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
-Oscar Wilde
It’s been over 120 years since the Marquess of Queensberry left a card at Oscar Wilde’s club bearing the phrase “posing somdomite,” but the trials that ensued have left lasting marks across our history and culture. Moises Kaufmann’s 1997 play chronicled these trials and their aftermath, addressing how the leading literary figure of his time became a pariah because of his acts of ‘gross indecency with male persons.’ Today, I think, the play carries broader significance than it did when it premiered nearly 20 years ago. It is still, and always will be, a play for the LBGTQ community: an examination of an early gay icon. But, in a world that seems to care more than ever about which bathroom you can use or who has control over whose body, I think this is a story for everyone. At its core, this is a play about being one’s self; and, frankly, about whether or not the government, society, or anyone else has the right to tell us if that’s okay. When push came to shove, despite unspeakable consequences, Oscar took his own advice: just be yourself.