Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, by Moises Kaufman, is a play that goes deep into a moment in history that not all fans of the canonical playwright may be familiar with. The trials, a Victorian celebrity scandal of sorts, sought to investigate whether Wilde committed acts as a queer man that were then considered illegal. We sat down with Daniel Sappington, who directed the play for IU Theatre as his MFA production, and learned how he put the play together and his thoughts on the significance of the work, at a time when “Don’t Say Gay” bills are again in our own country’s legislature.
