He inflicted a lot of damage on a lot of people around him, including his family and his friends. We certainly don't want to just be putting Oscar Wilde out there and saying, 'oh, poor man, complete martyr or complete saint', because he certainly wasn't. He's very funny and insightful but he's also very vain. He's incredibly intelligent but he's also willfully ignorant. “One of the things I love about playing Wilde or playing with his words and looking at his life is that he's not an entirely likeable character himself. The centre of the whole thing is the body, the physicality of this person from whom these words are pouring.” Brian very much views Wilde realistically, acknowledging that while he was obviously a great man, he wasn't devoid of flaws either. It's going to be strongly visual as well as rich in terms of the text. The atmosphere of the cell is continually changing and it weaves around the words, and the words weave around it as well. It's a very bleak place, but through the multi-media we managed to conjure up symbolic imagery, text and atmospheric decoration. The setting is the cell, two walls and a ceiling of the cell where Oscar Wilde was imprisoned. There's my physicality as Oscar Wilde, there's a large amount of text that's spoken throughout, but there's also projection. “There are three main elements in the piece.
He actually brought the idea to me and said, 'how would you feel about doing this?' And I hadn't ever really considered it before but I was really terrified and excited at the same time by the idea.” The play will feature elements of multi-media production, bringing Oscar's experiences and words to life.
I've known him for years, he's directed me in a couple of other things before. When asked what initially drew him to the production, Brian Lucas says, “David Fenton had been wanting to do an adaption of the piece for a long time. Directed by David Fenton and starring Brian Lucas, the play examines the life of Oscar Wilde, focusing on the persecution he faced for being gay and the deep suffering and transformation he underwent in prison. This April, theatre-goers will see Oscar Wilde's prison writings come to life with a production of 'De Profundis' ('From The Depths').
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