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An Ideal Husband archiveFirst 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.

Cast/Performers

Peter Machen, Maurice Byrne, Richard Ward, Richard Auckland, Mark Breeze, Toby Brown, Adam Lea, Rebekah Fortune, Grace Halliday, Suzanne Goldberg, Lucinda Forth, Sinead O'Keefe, Jennifer Cherry

Creatives/Company

Author: Oscar Wilde
Producer: Camarilla
Director(s): Rebekah Fortune, Poppy Merton (assistant)
Design: Katherina Radeva
Choreographer: Peter Machen

An Ideal Husband

An Ideal Husband (Play) production archive for QTIX code T344916379. Details of all An Ideal Husband archived productions can be found under the QTIX code: S2334

Archive Listings

7 Nov 07
  to
24 Nov 07
The Cockpit
Inner London, Greater London
Performance Details => Venue archive

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No UKTW or User reviews available.
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