It will surely take multiple viewings to appreciate Gregory Prest’s bold and brilliant new work De Profundis: Oscar Wilde in Jail. Like the Irish playwright and poet at the centre of the play, and ...

Written towards the end of Wilde’s incarceration, De Profundis is bitter, seductive, hurt and passionate. Ahead of a public reading, Colm Tóibín visits the cell in which Wilde put pen to paper Early ...

There is a thrilling majesty to Oscar Wilde’s tormented tour de force written as he prepared for release from Reading jail In life and death, Oscar Wilde possessed a unique self-mythologising genius.

Oscar Wilde did not choose the title De Profundis. After composing his famous letter to Lord Alfred Douglas ('Bosie') in Reading Gaol in 1897, he gave it to his friend and literary executor Robert ...

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Marking the birthday of Oscar Wilde on 16 October, Arwa Haider looks at the revolutionary love letter he wrote in prison. Stepping into the disused Reading prison is an instantly unsettling experience ...

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Spanish graphic novelist Miguelanxo Prado turns to animation with "De Profundis," a deceptively simple and lyrical labor of love about freedom, passion and loss. Themes are brought winsomely to life ...

A new reading of the extended letter Oscar Wilde wrote in his cell in Reading Prison. Introduced on location by writer and director, Neil Bartlett, and read by Irish actor, Stephen Rea. Wilde was ...