The show opened this weekend.
I have already written multiple times about how important I feel this show is, and it is nice to hear that audience members feel the same way from notes and individuals who have approached me after the play.
There is something fascinating, wonderful, and exhilarating about moving people to tears.
I hope I don't spoil anything for people out there with this historical tidbit (PS. The play is called the *Three* Trials of Oscar Wilde for a reason, and in Titanic: The Movie, the ship sinks!)
One moment in the play on Sunday's matinee, just before Oscar is about to read a letter to Bosie explaining his reason for not leaving the country before the third trial, the stage is silent for a few seconds. I speak the first lines of the letter ("I have decided it is nobler and more beautiful to stay. We cannot be together."), and I hear a person in the audience plaintively gasp. Just that little sound almost brought me to tears. I almost choked on the next line because of the tears. But I made it through. And it was reassuring to know that we were not performing to a void anymore. People were out there, and even after two and a half hours of historical documentation being recited on a stage, they were still engrossed in the play.
Posted by silsby at February 27, 2007 05:33 PM