Performance

Venue	Dorchester Arts Centre
	Also: Corn Exchange
Town	Dorchester
County	Dorset
From	6th March 2015
To	6th March 2015
When	20:00
Dorchester Arts Centre (V1068)
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Date of change: 21 Jan 15 - T1439518433

The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Work:: The Ballad of Reading Gaol (S1610593888)

Written by Oscar Wilde after his release from Reading Gaol (Wilde had been incarcerated in Reading having been convicted of homosexual offences in 1895, and sentenced to two years hard labour.

Author

Oascr Wilde

Production:: (T1439518433)

The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a poem which narrates the execution of Charles Thomas Wooldridge, who was convicted of murdering his wife. The Ballad of Reading Gaol moves from an objective story-telling to Wilde's juxtaposition of the executed man with himself, with the line "Yet each man kills the thing he loves". Wilde too was separated from his wife and sons.

Director	Gareth Armstrong
Performer	Gerard Logan

Listing:: L1549853189

Double bill with Wilde Without the Boy

Production details

The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a poem which narrates the execution of Charles Thomas Wooldridge, who was convicted of murdering his wife. The Ballad of Reading Gaol moves from an objective story-telling to Wilde's juxtaposition of the executed man with himself, with the line "Yet each man kills the thing he loves". Wilde too was separated from his wife and sons. Double bill with Wilde Without the Boy

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