Lodestar Quarterly

Lodestar Quarterly
Figure reaching for a star Issue 8 • Winter 2003 • Featured Lodestar Writer • Drama

Now She Dances!

a fantasia on the trial of Oscar Wilde in two acts

Doric Wilson

1
Introduction

2
Historical Notes

3
Characters, Time, Setting

Act 1


4
Entering

5
Setting the Stage

6
The Wrong Music

7
Fly in the Ointment

8
Finding the Deviant

9
Miss Salome Surveys

Act 2


10
Devotions

11
Setting the Table

12
After-Dinner Mints

13
The Prisoner

14
Crime and Punishment

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Doric Wilson

Doric Wilson was one of the first playwrights at New York City's legendary Caffé Cino and a pioneer of the Off-Off-Broadway movement, writing, directing, producing and designing over a hundred productions. He was a founding member of Circle Repertory Theater and the Barr/Wilder/Albee Playwright's Unit, a participant in all three nights of the Stonewall Riot, and was active in the early days of New York's gay liberation movement as a member of Gay Activist Alliance and as a "star" bartender and manager of the post-Stonewall gay bar scene, where he opened such landmark institutions as The Spike, TY's, and Brothers & Sisters Cabaret. His plays can also be read at www.doricwilson.com.

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