Lyttelton theatre, London Gatwa's Algernon brings delightful mischief to a high-camp production pointing up the classic Victorian comedy's subversive queerness Oscar Wilde's final play premiered weeks before the court case that led to his imprisonment for homosexuality, and the subtext of homoerotic desire that runs through this comedy of manners from 1895 has been well mined before now. But it is rarer to see Alger…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42AM on November 29, 2024