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Feasting with panthers : a play about Oscar Wilde /

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A surrealistic mixture of reality and imagination, "Feasting with Panthers" takes place in the life, mind, memory and vision of Oscar Wilde while imprisoned in England's Reading Gaol during the late Victorian Era. Through flashbacks and flash-forwards, the play presents a dramatic, fl...

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Main Author: Cumming, Richard
Corporate Authors: Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.), Broadway Theatre Archive, WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.), Trinity Square Repertory Company (Providence, R.I.)
Other Authors: Crowe, Timothy, Damkoehler, William, Hall, Adrian, Hauser, Rick, Jenkins, Richard, Kavanaugh, Richard, Kneeland, Richard, Lenert, Marguerite, Martin, George, Mason, T. Richard, Orson, Barbara, Von Bargen, Daniel, Williams, JoBeth, Campbell, Kenneth (Producer), Venza, Jac (Producer)
Format: Video
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: New York, NY : Broadway Theater Archive, [1987]
Series:Theatre in video.
Subjects:
Wilde, Oscar, > 1854-1900 > Drama.
Hall, Adrian > Film and video adaptations.
Nonfiction films.
Documentary films.
Internet videos.
Performance.
Online Access:Connect to this online video
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Summary:A surrealistic mixture of reality and imagination, "Feasting with Panthers" takes place in the life, mind, memory and vision of Oscar Wilde while imprisoned in England's Reading Gaol during the late Victorian Era. Through flashbacks and flash-forwards, the play presents a dramatic, flowing portrait of an era, and of a man whose genius and vitality live on in his own words.
Item Description:Originally released as DVD.
Title from resource description page (viewed Oct. 12, 2011).
Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (86 min.)
Production Credits:Executive producer, Jac Venza ; music and lyrics by Richard Cumming ; associate producer, David S. Howe.