Oscar Wilde’s ‘The Ballad of Reading Gaol’

08 September 2019

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This was a rare opportunity to see author Merlin Holland – Oscar Wilde’s only grandson – speak about his grandfather and read Josephine Hart’s introduction to Wilde’s universally acclaimed and moving masterpiece The Ballad of Reading Gaol.

Celebrated actor Simon Callow (best known for Four Weddings & a FuneralShakespeare in Love and A Room with a View) read The Ballad.

Produced and Directed by Shevaun Wilder for The Josephine Hart Poetry Foundation.

Date

08 September 2019

Venue

The Abbey Theatre, Dublin

The Abbey Theatre, Dublin, D01 K0F1

(01) 87 87 222

[email protected]

https://www.abbeytheatre.ie

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