Wilde Child.(Oscar Wilde and his mother, Speranza, focus of new play)(Brief Article)
American Theatre, October, 2000 by Drukman, Steven
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NEWS FLASH:
Oscar Wilde was a momma's boy.
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According to C. Robert Holloway, the author of Oscar and Speranza (which receives its world premiere this month at Trumpet Vine Theatre Company in Arlington, Va.), Wilde's mommy "instilled a lifelong disdain for the commonplace and inartistic." This two-act, two hander--inspired by correspondence between Wilde and his flamboyant mother--proves that the penchant for posing and peacocking may have been mother's milk to the young Oscar. As one of Mrs. Wilde's epistles to her son makes plain: "The Wildes are destined ...
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