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Performance

VenueThe Hawth
Also: Studio, Amphitheatre
TownCrawley
CountyWest Sussex
From28th November 2000
To2nd December 2000
When20:00
The Hawth (V720)
Current/Future Listings
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An Ideal Husband

Work:: An Ideal Husband (S2334)

First performed 1895. In decorous London society, where most women have their eyes set on snaring the perfect husband, Mrs Laura Cheveley is set on securing a lucrative Argentinian investment. All she needs to ensure the success of her scheme are corruptible connections in high places. Luckily, upright government minister, Sir Robert Chiltern, has a dark secret, and Mrs Cheveley knows exactly what it is. Now she just has to slice right through Sir Robert's outwardly respectable world, bending his earlier shame to her advantage. But there is one last hope for Sir Robert: Mrs Cheveley has a dark secret too, and Sir Robert's adoring wife, Lady Chiltern, who was at school with her, knows exactly what it is. Set in London in 1985, An Ideal Husband is considered to be Oscar Wilde's dramatic masterpiece. Blisteringly witty, the play is both a stylish comedy and a searing exposure of hypocrisy and bogus morality. In its analysis of ambition, shame, corruption and ruin, it speaks most passionately, not only to our age, but also to Wilde's personal crisis at the time.
Author Oscar Wilde

Production:: (T1928569448)

Frederick Pyne was due to play the aged butler Phipps, but unfortunately he was taken ill just before the first date of the tour, and has been forced out of the show for the time being.
Company Middle Ground Theatre Company
Director Michael Lunney
Design Ali Gorton
Performer Richard Walsh (Chiltern)
Performer Dermot Walsh (Phipps)
Performer Olivia Dermot Walsh
Performer Brian Cant
Performer Jean Rogers
Performer Louise English
Performer Marcus Gilbert

Listing:: L215003702

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Production details

Frederick Pyne was due to play the aged butler Phipps, but unfortunately he was taken ill just before the first date of the tour, and has been forced out of the show for the time being. Theatre

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Special Performances


  • 1 Dec 00 Sign Interpreted Interpreted by Mary Connell
  • 2 Dec 00 Audio Described
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