The company W!ld Rice was by no means the first to cast a man as Lady Bracknell, but Gwendolyn and Cicely were played by men, too – and not in drag. “The play was transformed into a homoromantic comedy – a love letter to same-sex marriage.” This fell afoul of section 377A of Singapore’s penal code – the same “gross indecency” law under which Oscar Wilde himself was sent to prison.