by Oscar Wilde

Director: Tim Hardy

Designer: Bob Bailey

Venue: Embassy Theatre at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama

Performed by: BA (Hons) Acting students

The present decadence of the English stage is due to the fact that the actor has become more important than the dramatist’, wrote Oscar Wilde in 1892. His plays ushered in a new era of great dramatic writing, whose sparkling wit and incisive commentary on the moral and social hypocrisies of the time paved the way for the rebirth of British Theatre.

In Lady Windermere’s Fan we see a twentieth century spirit storming the fortress of nineteenth century attitudes, and braving universal contempt and moral opprobrium to save a marriage. Graham Greene described Oscar Wilde as a ‘high spirit’ who ‘evaded the sober and high-minded pattern of Victorian Theatre and set our language free.

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