Oscar Wilde was a cultural terrorist: a man of dangerous ideas. His infamous letter, written in 1897 from Reading Gaol to his lover and betrayer, holds a tabloid fascination. It is an intimate investigation of a world-class dramatist and shamed celebrity suffering political imprisonment, censorship and trial by media. Oscar Wilde’s De Profundis is sexually uncompromising, audacious and exquisitely powerful – a one-man tour-de-force performance by Brian Lucas. This brutal and touching work investigates human rights, their quashing, emergence and acceptance – it charts the shift and suffering of discrimination for queer communities, drawing together the threads of current debates about inequality under the law and reflecting ongoing concerns through the mirror of time: the right to love, who you love, no matter their gender or sex. Don’t miss this contemporary theatre adaption of a classic literary work never before seen on stage in an exciting collaboration between David Fenton and Brian Lucas, with vision design by Ray Pittman and composition by David Megarrity.

WARNING: This work contains nudity, sexually explicit material and poetry.