By Neil Bartlett. Starring Conor Hanratty and Gene Rooney. Drected by Joan Sheehy.
On the night of 24th March 1895, Mrs Robinson, a society palmist, agreed to see Oscar Wilde in her London flat. It was one week before the ‘trial of the century’ and Wilde's lover, 'Bosie' was urging him to sue the Marquis of Queensberry (Bosie's father) for criminal libel. But Wilde's friends, wary of Queensberry's power, were warning him to leave town. Was his fateful decision to stay based on the advice he received that night? Inspired by traces of historical fact, this witty, haunting play imagines what may have happened in that London flat and leaves us with an intriguing web of 'what- ifs?