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An Ideal Husband

The Rosemary Branch, Inner London
From: Wednesday, 21st March 2012
To: Saturday, 7 April 2012

Our Review: starstarstar

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Synopsis

First performed 1895. Mrs Cheveley attempts to ruin a politician's succesful career by producing incriminating evidence about his past. However, she hasn't reckoned on the faithfulness and good memory of his devoted wife.

Our Review: starstarstar

2 April 2012

An Ideal Husband is not noted as one of Oscar Wilde’s finest works but a strong production can offer plenty to enjoy and food for thought.

Over the course of 24 hours a marriage is imperilled, a political scandal unearthed and a small, closely-knit group of upper-crust Victorians is forced to examine issues of loyalty, principle and forgiveness. The agent of this turmoil is the glamorous Mrs Cheveley, visiting London from her Viennese exile in order to blackmail Robert Chiltern (Sunny Moodie), a prominent golden-boy in government who has actually built a glittering career on an appalling moral lapse.

When Robert’s wife Gertrude (Rose Robinson) learns the truth her faith in her ‘ideal husband’ is shattered, rocking her vision of herself as the perfect complement to Robert's paragon of virtue and threatening their marriage and all the social and moral freight attached to it.


A stand-out performance ...

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