Wilde Theatre - by Neil Titley
Performance and News
ATLANTA, Ga 2001 May: Monday The last journey across the Old South took place on a local bus from Birmingham to Atlanta, Georgia. My fellow passengers were blacks and Hispanics who regarded me silently but with curiosity. It seemed that […]
SEWANEE, Tenn. Having rejoined James, Lyn, and their small daughter Alice-Elizabeth in Birmingham, the next day we set off on the promised trip to their cabin in Tennessee. 2001 May: Saturday By-passing Chattanooga to the north-east, we headed west on […]
MONTGOMERY, Ala. 2001 April: Wednesday Next morning, Lyn drove me south towards the next venue. The countryside was still wooded but grew flatter as we neared the Gulf of Mexico. Oscar Wilde himself had travelled in this area but had […]
BIRMINGHAM 2001 April: Tuesday As we drove south out of Chattanooga next morning, Ann said: “You’d best turn your watch back one hour – we’re moving from Eastern Time to Central.” We had crossed over the border into Alabama and […]
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. 2001 April: Saturday During the short haul flight over the Appalachian Mountains, I concentrated my thoughts towards this last leg of the US trip. Wilde’s own tour of the South had started in my current destination of the […]