St Oscar is a one-man show featuring the music of Philip Chevron
of the Pogues and is an adaptation of Terry Eagleton’s
extremely clever and funny play. The drama depicts Oscar Wilde
as an anarchistic absurdist with a vent for self-destruction of
saintly sacrifice, a joker who undermined the English establishment
and exposed its terrible hypocrisies.
The play explores the life and relationships of Oscar Wilde through
theatre and song. Seamus plays a series of characters, giving
them voice through Eagletons’ script and the rollicking
ribald ballads of Philip Chevron and Neil Martin.
This is also a play about masks, identity and paradoxes. “Always
judge by appearances, they’re far more reliable than reality.”
While the quips come thick, fast and funny they do not contradict
the serious themes just below the surface.
