As if aware of the stasis, Hare delivers a startling and extraneous opening scene featuring the nude coupling of a hotel bellboy (Elliot Balchin) and a chambermaid (Jessie Hills).

The play is admittedly a bit slow and talky, feeling longer than its two-and-a-half-hour running time. Despite the cost to his freedom and his finances, he chooses to remain loyal to the self-absorbed, self-serving Bosie, even when confronted with his brazen dalliance with an Italian stud. Wilde, for all his acerbic wit, is depicted here as a deep romantic whose adoration of his younger lover proves his undoing. HeвЂ™s once again faced with a difficult decision when Ross unexpectedly appears and advises him that his wife will cut off his financial support unless he breaks away from Bosie. Act 2 takes place in 1897, where a now impoverished and physically depleted Wilde, subsisting on an allowance from his wife Constance, is living with Bosie in a rundown seaside villa in Naples. ItвЂ™s no spoiler to reveal that Wilde chose the latter option, only to receive a two-year, hard-labor prison sentence. Off Script: How Jonathan Groff Created That King George Accent for 'Hamilton'

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