Lady Windermere S Fan London 2017

Oscar wilde s lady windermere s fan is now playing at london s vaudeville theatre directed by kathy burke and guest starring the inimitable jennifer saunders.

Lady windermere s fan london 2017.

The story concerns lady windermere who suspects that her husband is having an affair with another woman. She s back on rather different terms in 2018 and if co starring in oscar wilde s timeless 1892 comedy lady windermere s fan clearly constitutes the harvesting of low hanging fruit for. Wilde s original interpretation is emotive and at times sombre. Lady windermere s fan photo by ellen sussam.

Lady windermere s fan is about a woman who suspects her husband is cheating on her with another woman. Kathy burke has made lady windermere s fan accessible for all from the sixth formers who studied it at school to their grandparents. The party she s throwing that evening is in fact in honor of her birthday. A comedy by oscar wilde.

Lady windermere s fan a play about a good woman is a four act comedy by oscar wilde first performed on saturday 20 february 1892 at the st james s theatre in london. Angered by her husband s supposed unfaithfulness lady windermere decides to leave her. It s an indicator perhaps of the sort of clientele the chelsea theatre enjoys when a pre show front of house announcement advises patrons. Initial casting has been announced for classic spring s second oscar wilde production at the vaudeville theatre lady windermere s fan to be directed by kathy burke.

October 14 2017 last updated. She confronts him with it but although he denies it he invites the other woman mrs erlynne to his wife s birthday ball. An angry lady windermere then invites the other woman to her 21st birthday party samantha spiro will play mrs erlynne. Spiro first came to the public s attention in cleo camping emmanuelle and dick at.

Oscar wilde s comedy about love betrayals and family is now in the west end as part of a year long season of oscar wilde at the vaudeville. Lord darlington enters and admires lady windermere s beautiful fan which she says was a birthday gift from her husband. Lady windermere then chastises him for giving her so many effusive compliments and tells him that she thinks he pretends to be a very bad man when he s actually a very good one.