Actor brings Oscar Wilde to Jakarta<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): His name was once a dirty word, sullied by the
\nhomosexual scandal which sent him to prison and left him a broken
\nman, but today Irish playwright Oscar Wilde is someone to
\ncelebrate.<\/p>\n
Books, plays and a collection of his private letters were
\nrolled out in his honor in November last year, the centenary of
\nhis death.<\/p>\n
Among those paying homage is Irish born actor Patrick Marley,
\nwho will perform the play Wilde at Heart in a sold-out
\nperformance on Wednesday at the Mercantile Athletic Club in the
\nWorld Trade Center in Central Jakarta.<\/p>\n
He is accompanied by Genevieve Allenbury, who plays various
\nimportant women in the life of the author of The Picture of
\nDorian Gray and Lady Windermere's Fan.<\/p>\n
Marley, who conceived the play and has brought it to such
\ndiverse places as Bangkok and Saudi Arabia, considers Wilde a
\ntragic figure, a victim of circumstance and his own arrogance.<\/p>\n
"The sad thing is that people tend to forget that he was such
\na great writer. He started a whole new way of writing -- nobody
\nhad ever written like him before," Marley said. (brc)<\/p>\n
For more information about the play, call the Mercantile Club
\nat 521-1320. 3<\/p>",
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