My Scandalous Life
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Feb 2, 2011
Closed Mar 6, 2011
Opened Feb 2, 2011
Closed Mar 6, 2011
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Running Time:
1hr. 45min.
(includes 1 intermission)
1hr. 45min.
(includes 1 intermission)
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Irish Repertory Theater presents the world premiere of Thomas Kilroy's My Scandalous Life, a new play about Oscar Wilde's lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. John Going directs the production, which stars Des Keogh and Fiana Tiobin.
Set in 1944 in the middle of the Second World War, the play tells the story of Lord Alfred Douglas, Oscar Wilde's beloved Bosie, who, overcome with memories of the notorious love affair that rocked England, struggles to examine the mysteries of his own identity. Forever linked to Wilde... the scandal... the violent trials which led to Wilde's imprisonment... the guilt... and the subsequent half-century he lived after Wilde, who died alone in Paris in 1900, Bosie searches for the very personal meaning of a life forever the subject of endless conjecture.
As his wife Olive lies dying upstairs, Lord Douglas displays unexpected depths of feelings, as he copes with his marriage, his memories of Oscar, and the tragic fate of his only son.
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The self-delusions and bitterness of a man well into his golden years take center stage in Thomas Kilroy's bio-drama My Scandalous Life, now playing at The Irish Repertory Theatre. The piece focuses on Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas, the poet perhaps best remembered today as Oscar Wilde's lover "Bosie." While imagining what the man might have reflected on as he looked back at his event-filled life could make for riveting drama, the play never truly catches fire.
There's something to be said for the period in which Kilroy sets his play -- 1944 -- just one year before Douglas (Des Keogh in a workmanlike performance) will pass away. He's retreated to his wife's apartments while she herself copes [...]