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A Seemingly Unlikely Marriage

June 11, 2008 by Cristina Córdova

The widely-discussed flamboyant personality of Irish playwright Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900) is such that many often forget that Wilde was married and fathered two sons. It is his wife, the comparatively uncovered Constance Wilde, that gets the spotlight in Thomas Kilroy’s The Secret Fall of Constance Wilde, which opened June 6 at the Guthrie … Read more

The Secret Fall of Constance Wilde

June 10, 2008 by Andrew Newman

The Guthrie Theatre presents Irish playwright Thomas Kilroy’s The Secret Fall of Constance Wilde, an exploration into the life of the wife of renowned writer Oscar Wilde, who had a highly controversial relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas during the marriage. Starring Sarah Agnew (of the acclaimed one-woman show The Syringa Tree) as the titular character, … Read more