Wilde Child.(Oscar Wilde and his mother, Speranza, focus of new play)(Brief Article)

NEWS FLASH:

Oscar Wilde was a momma's boy.

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 ...