With homosexuality still outlawed in Singapore,an all-male production of The Importance of Being Earnest touches on taboos and becomes a paean for equalityMore Brisbane festival: are glitter pills one high too many for festival foodies?Brisbane festival mixtape: Myele Manzanza, Lady Rizo and moreThe twist that Singaporean theatre company W!ld Rice do on Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest was a simple one: employ an all-male cast to play both male and female characters. While the theatre company are not the first to cast a male actor as the play’s lead matriarch, and Lady Bracknell (Geoffrey Rush has played her in the past,and David Suchet is playing her now in Londons West End), by keeping their male actors in suits rather than dress in drag, and the play was transformed into a homoromantic comedy – a esteem letter to same-sex marriage.
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Source: theguardian.com