"Wilde" Immersive Film Screening

Celebrate LGBT+ History Month by attending this immersive film screening of "Wilde" - the 1997 biopic starring Stephen Fry as Oscar Wilde.

This dramatisation of the fall from grace of author Oscar Wilde was filmed in the courtroom of St Albans Museum + Gallery, where this screening will take place.

Summary:

Author, play write and poet, Oscar Wilde [Stephen Fry] returns from a successful 1882 lecture tour of America to wed Constance Lloyd Wilde [Jennifer Ehle]. However, having accepted that he is in fact attracted to men, Oscar Wilde embarks on a long, passionate and tempestuous affair with Lord Alfred Douglas [Jude Law], known as “Bosie.” Although winning great critical and public success with the works as “The Picture of Dorian Gray,” Oscar Wilde’s homosexuality is at odds with a repressive Victorian society and sets him on the path to a very public, brutal fall from grace.

Featuring Stephen Fry in a role he was born to play and a stellar British supporting cast which includes subtle supporting performances from Vanessa Redgrave, Michael Sheen, Tom Wilkinson and Zoë Wanamaker. ‘WILDE’ celebrates one of English literature’s greatest, most flamboyant and tragic figures.

Refreshments will be available to purchase

Please note: This film has a rating of 15

You may also like the following events from St Albans Museums:

• This Saturday, 31st January, 11:00 am, Ebru Paper Marbling Workshop in St Albans
• Next Saturday, 7th February, 02:30 pm, Mosaics Verulamium Museum Talk in Saint Albans
• Next month, 11th February, 07:00 pm, Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth & Power in St Albans

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