

Sat, Feb 05
|New York
'A Very Great Mischief' at Theater for the New City
Time & Location
Feb 05, 2022, 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM
New York, 155 1st Ave., New York, NY 10003, USA
About the Event
Written by emerging playwright Laura Anthony (they/them), tells the story of two British families turned upside down by the discovery that homoerotic tendencies are not exclusively male, no matter what the laws of Great Britain might declare.A Very Great Mischief
The events which occur in this comedy of manners are inspired by the true story of a resolution to add 'acts of indecency by females' to then already-extant buggery laws of Great Britain. The clause was presented in August 1921 to amend Section 11 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885, which was used to send Oscar Wilde to prison in 1895, for ‘committing acts of gross indecency with male persons. Such an amendment was lambasted by the Earl of Desart as 'a very great mischief' that would not deter women from same-sex encounters, but rather inform those who were not aware that they could engage in such acts.
Tickets
General Admission
$25.00
+$0.63 ticket service fee
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