Red Line Productions in association with Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras  presents 

THE JUDAS KISS

by DAVID HARE

 

'An emotionally rich drama illuminated by Hare’s customary insight and humanity' –The Globe and Mail

 

In the spring of 1895, Oscar Wilde was larger than life. His Masterpiece

 

The Importance of Being Ernest  was a hit in the West End; he was the toast of London. Yet by summer he was serving two years in prison for gross indecency.

 

The scene is the Cadogan Hotel in 1895, where Wilde gathers his thoughts after losing a libel suit against the Marquess of Queensbury, the father of his lover Alfred Douglas, aka Boisie. The Marquess, enraged by the couple’s recklessly public and, in Victorian society’s view, amoral affair, openly insulted the writer and thus a lawsuit ensued. Now the defeated writer struggles with a burden of conscience — flee to France to escape persecution or stay and stand his ground, even when Boisie’s love is fickle and inconstant. 

 

DIRECTOR: IAIN SINCLAIR
WITH: JOSH QUONG TART AS OSCAR WILDE, ROBERT ALEXANDER, HANNAH RAVEN, LUKE FEWSTER, SIMON LONDON, DAVID SONCIN AND HAYDEN MAHER AS LORD ALFRED DOUGLAS
SET DESIGN: JONATHAN HINDMARSH
LIGHTING DESIGN and ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: ALEXANDER BERLAGE
COSTUME DESIGN: ANTOINETTE BARBOUTTIS
SOUND DESIGN: STEVE TOULMIN
SET CONSTRUCTION: COLIN EMMERTON