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Review Pope plays a timely Wilde card The Trials of Oscar Wilde

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From: The Scotsman
Date: 20021106
Author:Joyce McMillan

Citizens' Theatre, Glasgow

IF long-term Citizens associate Jon Pope is one of the runners to replace Giles Havergal as the theatre's artistic director, then this clever, intense and thought-provoking studio show will have done nothing to harm his chances.

In three 30-minute acts, Pope's documentary play, based on contemporary transcripts, covers the key moments during the three trials held in the spring of 1895 which brutally terminated Oscar Wilde's dazzling career as a star of London's literary and social scene, and led to his imprisonment, exile, and early death.

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