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​Gross Indecency         ** CANCELED **

12th Ave Arts MAINSTAGE
May-28 to Jun-27, 2020
Thu-Fri-Sat and Mon at 7:30pm
Special Sunday matinee June-14
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In April 1895 Oscar Wilde brought a libel suit against the Marquess of Queensberry, the father of his youthful lover, who had publicly maligned him as a sodomite. In doing so, England's reigning man of letters set in motion a series of events that would culminate in his ruin and imprisonment. For within a year the bewildered Wilde himself was on trial for acts of "gross indecency" and, implicitlyfor a vision of art that outraged Victorian propriety. Expertly interweaving courtroom testimony with excerpts from Wilde's writings and the words of his contemporaries, Gross Indecency unveils its subject in all his genius and human frailty, his age in all its complacency and repression. 

"A multilevel study in public perceptions of class, art and sexuality as a portrait of one man's downfall, while retaining the pull of the old-fashioned courtroom drama."
—Ben Brantley, New York Times

GROSS INDECENCY
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Listing Information
Title: Gross Indecency
Previews: Thu-Fri May 28-29, 2020
Opens: Saturday, May 30, 2020
Plays: Thu-Fri-Sat and Mon, 7:30 pm
Matinee: Sun June 14 only, 2:00 pm
Venue: Mainstage Theatre at 12th Ave Arts
Address: 1620 12th Ave, Capitol Hill, Seattle
Ticket Prices: $36 General, $24 Mondays
Phone Sales: 1-800-838-3006
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written by Moises Kaufman
​directed by Josh Aaseng
casting by Anastasia Higham
graphic design by Melanie Wang
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12th Ave Arts
1620 12th Ave, Capitol Hill, Seattle 98122
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