Town Players will benefit from a solo performance planned for Sunday, June 11, at The Little Theatre.Work Is The Curse of The Drinking Classes will be a fully staged, costumed, one-actor production that finds the famous author and playwright Oscar Wilde alone and near destitute, in a Parisian café in August 1898.Work Is The Curse of The Drinking Classes was written in 1978 by playwright, actor and scholar Neil Titley. Gathering many of Wilde's disparate themes, subjects, and styles into a form rarely found together in his individual works, the show weaves a dramatic and personal and intellectual portraits of one of the most well-known figures of the 19th Century.Work Is The Curse of The Drinking Classes will be performed at 2 pm Sunday, June 11, at The Little Theatre, 18 Orchard Hill Road. All tickets are $20. Proceeds will be put toward upgrading the theater's lighting and sound system.info@newtownplayers.org, or visiting newtownplayers.org.This is a truncated version of a feature by Newtown Bee Associate Editor Shannon Hicks that was first published on June 5, 2017. To read the full version of that story, please click here.

Featuring the talents of Johnson Flucker,

In an award-winning production the professional actor has been performing for two years, Ms Flucker plays the poet, novelist, essayist, playwright and truth-teller who - penniless and near friendless - reflects on his past, present, and prospects for a not-too-promising future.

The play is brimming with Wildean epigrams and anecdotes. It is, according to Mr Flucker's website, "at once hilarious and heartbreaking while being completely contemporary in its critique of people, the press, and politics."

Quoting Wilde's writings extensively, the play shows the author "at his most sarcastic and tender, resilient and vulnerable, as well as relentlessly critical of his world while being continually self-effacing," according to program notes by Town Players.

Tickets can be reserved by calling 203-270-9144, sending e-mail to