This Victorian farce is much more than a comedy of crossed wires and mistaken identity. As a closeted gay man in Victorian England, author Oscar Wilde deftly infuses deception into the plot of Earnest as a mirror of the deception he was forced to live. In retrospect, the work is both a comic masterpiece and a brilliant encoding of “the love that dare not speak its name.”
May 13, 2015
4:00 pm
The Little Theatre (Humanities Hall)
Performances Addressing Mental Illness and Its Stigma
Drama students perform pieces based on interviews with community members directly and/or indirectly affected by mental illness. Panel will discuss. Reception follows.
