Trial of Oscar Wilde (Dramatic Reading)

In 1895 Oscar Wilde was convicted of gross indecency and sentenced to two years' hard labor. This account of his two trials was compiled from the original shorthand court reports by an anonymous author. While a more complete account of the trial was published several years later, it omitted the more 'sensational' exchanges. This shorter version was clearly intended for a more prurient reader. In it we hear Wilde's famous defence of "the love that dare not speak its name", and see the evidence mount as a succession of attractive young men step into the witness box to tell their tales. - Summary by Rob Board

Cast

Narrator: Rob Board

Oscar Wilde: Edward Kirkby

Alfred Taylor: Ted Delorme

Mr. C.F. Gill: Beth Thomas

Sir Edward Clarke: Kristin Gjerløw

Mr. JP Grain: Michele Fry

Sir Frank Lockwood: Elizabeth Klett

Mr. Horace Avory: Oxenhandler

Mr. Hall: Joseph Tabler

Mr. Justice Charles: Richard Shipp

Mr. Justice Wills: Zames Curran

The Foreman of the Jury: David Olson

Frank Atkins: Eden Rea-Hedrick

Edward Shelley: Newgatenovelist

Charles Parker: Sandra Schmit

Alfred Wood: Rotgold

Sidney Mavor: Anna Simon

Hugues Rebell: David Bushhouse

Arthur Symons: Mark Chulsky

Baron Macauley: Apneia

Octave Mirbeau: Herman Roskams

Newspaper reporter: Jessie Yun

John Milton: Hannoria

Edited by: Rob Board