Inspired by Oscar Wilde's remarkable poem, 'The Ballads of Reading Gaol', the new Ballad has been written by young offenders with the help of performance poet John Hegley. John Hegley, the popular ...

The disused Victorian prison that once held Oscar Wilde could be turned into a ... Upon release he wrote The Ballad of Reading Gaol, a poem based on his memory of an execution at the prison.

A theatre company has been given permission to perform inside an empty jail that once held Oscar Wilde. Rabble ... composed his last work, The Ballad of Reading Gaol, describing an execution ...

A theatre performance that was due to take place in a historic former prison that once held Oscar Wilde has been moved ... his last work, The Ballad of Reading Gaol, describing an execution ...

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