LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN

by Oscar Wilde

Landor Theatre, Clapham North
31 May - 17 June 2006

“I CAN’T BELIEVE THAT MY HUSBAND IS UNTRUE”
LADY WINDERMERE
(Lady Windermere’s Fan 1893)
 
“I TRUST DAVID, WE TRUST EACH OTHER”
VICTORIA BECKHAM
(The Mirror 2005)

Lord and Lady Windermere as Posh and Becks? Why not?

Wilde’s London based upper class characters of the Gay Nineties are transported to the Essex ex-pat paradise of Marbella.

After all, the new wealthy are the old rich.

And when an aristocratic wife, old or new, hears that her husband has been unfaithful, there is nothing to choose between them...