Wilde, of course, was a gay man trying to live in a heterosexual world, and there are hints of such things in the comedy. In a traditional performance we root for the quartet to wind up together, but that isn’t really an issue here. Instead, Wilde’s satire storms to the front. These are all ridiculous characters, shaped by the mores of their times, who have too much money to think of anything beyond whether to have cake or muffins with their tea.
Ridiculusmus shape-shifts the play into something Wilder than what we’re used to, so don’t go expecting to see Edith Evans. But as Haynes, Woods, and Kelly prove, there’s more than one way to skin a Lady Bracknell.
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According to the New York Daily News , Paris is planning to keep a prison diary for publication later this year.
- Wilde thing
Kaufman has revitalized the staged docudrama with imagination and arrow-swift directness, and 2nd Story Theatre is demonstrating just how that looks.
- Trivial pursuit
It's difficult to put on an awful performance of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest .
- No alibi needed
Earnest also boasts one hell of a big, imperious foil of British womanhood.
- Serious business
Playwright and director Moisés Kaufman likes to say that Oscar Wilde was the first performance artist.
- Bliss
What a great idea — a breakfast-and-lunch café that doubles as a small whole-foods market.
- Power play(1)
At this time of renewed political idealism in the country, director Judith Swift has labeled the London setting of An Ideal Husband , at the Gamm through December 7, as "inspired by the 19th century, set in the 20th century, reflected in the 21st century."
- Fats and Wilde
It’s no surprise that this show is such naughty, irrepressible fun.
- Oscar winner?
The Lyric offers some sly, Wildean touches in a discreetly pruned, generally creditable production.
- A Good Woman
The past catches up with an ageing seductress in Mike Barker’s flaccid version of Lady Windermere’s Fan , Oscar Wilde’s classic comedy of manners.
- Where are the movies on the war in Iraq?
Oscar Wilde might have called 9/11 “the day we dare not speak its name.” He would have been correct, at least, that we dared not speak its name to make a buck — until now.
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