What I liked
The well-chosen cast and the genuinely witty epigrams which pepper the show.
What I didn't like
The script doesn’t explain much, the dialogue is bland, and the epigrams overbalance it. Overall production plods along without much guidance!
My overall impression
“Aren’t you Dreary!” says Dorian Gray to his literary creator in the last of three 15-minute scenes that visit Oscar Wilde in Exile—-and he’s right!
Lots of Wilde’s witty epigrams, out of context, which draw laughs, out of context, can’t save this sad scenario——and lifeless, paceless direction is no help! Four well-chosen actors try their best: Richard Lucas plays “Frank Harris” (never adequately identified), and is suitably stalwart; “Mrs Wilde” is plumply maternal; and “Oscar” himself, Richard Abraham, is a convincing ruin. Just when he’s needed most, Patrick Censoplano as “Dorian Gray” slithers down the stairs equipped with genuine movie star elan to be as tempting to Oscar as the Serpent was to Eve. Forewarned: if you don’t know this chapter of Gay History going in, you won’t know much more going out!
