Known for his biting wit, flamboyant dress and glittering conversational skill, Wilde became one of the best-known personalities of his day. After university, Wilde moved to London into fashionable cultural and social circles.Īs a spokesman for aestheticism, he tried his hand at various literary activities: he published a book of poems, lectured in the United States and Canada on the new "English Renaissance in Art" and interior decoration, and then returned to London where he worked prolifically as a journalist. He became associated with the emerging philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin. At university, Wilde read Greats he demonstrated himself to be an exceptional classicist, first at Trinity College Dublin, then at Oxford. A young Wilde learned to speak fluent French and German. Wilde's parents were Anglo-Irish intellectuals in Dublin. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the circumstances of his criminal conviction for gross indecency for consensual homosexual acts in "one of the first celebrity trials", imprisonment, and early death from meningitis at age 46. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. In Tucson, she received MAC nominations for Relatively Speaking as Sheila and No Exit as Inez and won recognition for her role as Amanda in LTW’s The Glass Menagerie. Favorite roles include Flora in Humble Boy, Nettie in The Subject was Roses and Mag in The Beauty Queen of Leenane. Film credits include The Lost River, The Greening of Eritrea, Spin, Animal Planet’s I Shouldn’t be Alive and Finley Wade. Cynthia's message to Bryan and Elizabeth, "I am so thrilled (our go-to- word in the arts, right?!) to be part of the Scoundrel and Scamp's 1st Season in Tucson.Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. She owned and operated “Wide Eyed Theatre”, an after school program, and co-produced three videos on Teen Crime Prevention with her husband, Tobin. She has worked as a DJ for “K-Hawaii’s Rock N’ Roll” and earned 4 Tiki Awards for Best Actress in such shows as A Streetcar Named Desire as Blanche, Macbeth as Lady Macbeth, Crimes of the Heart as Meg and Beyond Therapy as Prudence. In Tucson, Bryan has directed at The Rogue Theatre, including The New Electric Ballroom and Awake and Sing. He was recognized as Best Director (2012 Arizona Daily Star Mac Award) for the show The Night Heron.īryan serves as board Vice-Chair of the Tucson-based Southwest Folklife Alliance, and as a board member at The Rogue Theatre.Īn ASU graduate with a degree in Theatre Arts, Cynthia (Costume Design) spends her time between her two homes, Tucson and Hilo, Hawaii. He served as a director and set designer for numerous shows, including The Carthaginians, Lysistrata, Cloud Tectonics, Night Mother, Bug, Marisol, Love Letters, Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night, The Taming of the Shrew, and Romeo and Juliet. Bryan is an award-winning director (MFA Directing, Western Illinois, 2001) and tech entrepreneur with a passion for both education and building and scaling successful organizations.Īt the S&S Bryan has directed Two Plays for Lost Souls: The Love Talker & The Yellow Wallpaper and A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney, for which he won the 2017 Arizona Daily Star Mac Award for Best Director.īryan served as Artistic Director for two Indiana-based theatre companies, New World Arts and the Backporch Theatre Company. Young Slave.Willow FalcónĮxecutioner.Roger Owen Musicīryan is Co-founder and Artistic Director at the Scoundrel & Scamp Theatre. Second Soldier.Larry GattiĪ Nubian/First Jew.Lance Guzman The Page of Herodias.Ben Adamiįirst Soldier.Joseph Clark Questions? Call our Box Office at 448-3300. $15 Teacher & Student Tickets (with valid ID) Runtime: Approximately 90 minutes with no intermission.Ī Conversation with Director and Cast follows each performance.Īudience: The MainStage Series is best enjoyed by Scoundrels ages 13+. Location: The Scoundrel & Scamp Theatre at The Historic YĮnter from the parking lot behind The Historic Y (parking lot entrance off of Herbert Avenue) Note: Our Preshow begins at approximately 7:15. Showtimes: Thursdays-Saturdays 7:30 p.m., Sundays 2:00 p.m., plus a 2:00 p.m. Oscar Wilde’s gorgeous play, banned by The Lord Chamberlain in 1892, reimagines the biblical story of the legendary dance of Salomé and the abhorrent death of John the Baptist. As mad ravings - or perhaps prophetic truths - fall from his lips, Salomé strikes a bargain with her lecherous stepfather - she will dance for him, in exchange for Jokanaan's head. King Herod's stepdaughter, Salomé, grows fascinated by the imprisoned Jokanaan, even as he hurls insults and threatens devastation.
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