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So a while ago, there was this idea that I had, to write what might, or might not be a one-woman (yes woman) show about Oscar Wilde, wher eI would get to play Wilde. Everyone I've mentioned this to, either thinks it's a brilliant idea, or a really terrible one, but the force is so intense it seems worthy of pondering. The results of the recent photo shoot have me back on teh mental track with it again, although I've no more idea of it now, than when I first said it to be funny months ago. But I think i do need to sit down and read through _everything_ of his again, and see if I can find the thread I'm looking for. I'm a small woman, with an intense interested in characters (real and imagined) who are interested in the nature of their ugliness. Wilde was a huge man, who I think we're somewhat prone to imagining quite differently -- afte all we assume the dandy must be delicate. And somewhere in all of this, there is something that therefore makes this admittedly random idea make sense.

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[redstapler.livejournal.com]

Dude. I would so go see a one-woman show about Wilde.

Even if I *didn't* know the writer/lead.

[coyotegoth.livejournal.com]

"I knew I should create a great sensation," gasped the Rocket, and he went out.

[coyotegoth.livejournal.com]

...which is to say that Wilde, likew you, was all about image: I think that that willful creation of the perceived self could be a useful thread for you.

[ekatarina.livejournal.com]

Woot! I heartily support this idea.

I even can claim a small connection as it is believed by some that a painting done by an ancestress of mine was the inspirartion for "Dorian Gray"!

Best of luck,

Ekatarina, who would do her damndest to get to NY to see such a show.

[delchi.livejournal.com]

Absolutely perfect idea, and no better person to do it IMHO.

It's All About the Perception, Baby

[reudaly.livejournal.com]

I think the dicotomy (finally had enough coffee to make THAT work) between a small woman playing a large man would actually work out. Especially since everyone always DOES assume Wilde was a small man.

It's all about the perception...

Oh, and if you want one more bizarre little source of anything Wilde - I don't know if you've heard of or read Carole Nelson Douglas's Irene Adler books (they're mystery fiction - Sherlock Holmesian stuff) but Oscar Wilde is a back ground character in at least the first of the series. It changed titles in reprint/rerelease, so I'm not sure what it's currently called, but a quick Amazon search will find it.

[shayguevara.livejournal.com]

brilliant. you must.