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Aesthetics, Politics, and Narrative: The Work and Legacy of Playwright Moises Kaufman
The last words Oscar Wilde spoke at his trial were, “And I, my Lord? May I say nothing?” The judge remained mute, and Wilde – on trial for his queerness in its multiple definitions – had no more chance to speak until he wrote the lengthy, haunting De Profundis from prison. These are the last words Wilde speaks in Moisés Kaufman’s Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde [a star-studded staged reading of the play was held on Oct 5th in NYC],and they summarize both the keystone of Kaufman’s function and the pressing interrogate of queer lives: who gets to tell their stories? Whose narrative becomes the narrative of gay history and culture?
This doubt is part of a larger one, simultaneously philosophical, metaphysical, and aesthetic: what is the relationship between fiction and reality? It also boasts an commanding pedigree dating back to antiquity. Plato banned poets from his perfect Republic lest their escapism distract citizens from civic duty; fictionality – that is, the idea that fiction is a separate category between truth and lying – only arose in the eighteenth century;
In ‘Here There are Blueberries,’ playwright Moisés Kaufman focuses on perpetrators of the Holocaust
The Venezuelan-born Kaufman, best known for “The Laramie Project,” a play and HBO film about the murder of the gay learner Matthew Shepard, had found his latest subject.
Moisés Kaufman. (Photo by Jenny Anderson)
The multitalented playwright-director Moisés Kaufman is the imaginative director and founder of New York City’s Tectonic Theater Project; he is also a co-founder of Miami Fresh Drama at the Colony Theatre in Miami Beach. Beyond earning nominations for Drama Desk, Tony, and Emmy awards, he is a winner of an Obie and a Lucille Lortel Award.
Born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela, Kaufman earned an undergraduate business degree from Universidad Metropolitana in Venezuela, where he acted and studied theatre, before moving to the U.S. in 1987 and studying theatre at New York University. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002, and in 2016, President Barack Obama awarded him the National Medal of Arts.
The Laramie Project (2000), which he created with the Tectonic Theater, brought him and the company international acclaim. Other major credits include two of his hold plays (1997’s Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, a slap Off-Broadway, and 2007’s 33 Variations on Broadway), as skillfully as stints as director of Rajiv Joseph’s Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo in 2011, Harvey Fierstein’s Torch Song, and Doug Wright’s I Am My 33 Variations 3 The breadth and profile of the society of LGBTQ playwrights around the world is remarkable. Many of these individuals are national heroes, cultural icons and literary giants. The wide diversity and popularity of LGBTQ playwrights reflects the community as a whole and attests to the universality and range of sexual orientations, both throughout history and today. In the majority of cases, the subject matter of the written material reflects the LGBTQ community, its challenges and its successes. Activism is a dominant theme, and both the play and the stage is the medium through which many playwrights participate in campaign. In some countries, this means that the playwright is politically marginalized or treated as an outcast by the ruling government despite their popular admiration and acceptance. The perform is used as a means to express judgments and facts on issues such as feminism, discrimination, love, sexual identity, political repression, race, cultural individuality, and more. Plays can reflect the issues within the LGBTQ community itself. The most prominent example of this is the AIDS epidemic - its impact on the theatre world and inclusion
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33 Variations Gross Indecency: the Three Trials Of Oscar Wilde Laramie Project, The Laramie Proposal, The: Ten Years Later London Mosquitoes One Arm
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