Paige, Ogilvy, Sands, Matthews, Wolf and Blanc Join Gross Indecency for LATW

By Adam Hetrick
November 11, 2009

Additional casting has been announced for the L.A. Theatreworks production of Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, which begins Nov. 18.

Brendon Fox will stage Moisés Kaufman's play about the famed playwright and his fall from society. Gross Indecency runs through Nov. 22 at the Skirball Center.

Newly added cast members include "Queer As Folk" star Peter Paige (Lord Alfred Douglas), Ian Ogilvy (Carson), Julian Sands (Clarke), Dakin Matthews (Narrator 1), Matthew Wolf (Narrator, Parker, Harris) and JB Blanc. They will join previously announced Simon Templeman (Oscar Wilde) and John Vickery (Marquis de Queensbury).

"In three short months, Oscar Wilde, the most celebrated playwright and wit of Victorian England, was toppled into humiliation and ruin. Drawing from trial documents, newspaper accounts, and the writings of key players, Gross Indecency ignites an incendiary mix of sex and censorship, with a cast of characters ranging from George Bernard Shaw to Queen Victoria herself," according to LATW.

As with all LATW productions, Gross Indecency will be recorded and broadcast on LATW's nationally syndicated radio theatre series, "The Play's the Thing."

For tickets to any of "The Play's the Thing" productions at the Skirball Cultural Center, 2701 N. Sepulveda Boulevard, call the L.A. Theatre Works box office at (310) 827-0889.

For more information visit latw.org.