On the morning of his wife's twenty-first birthday, Lord Windermere gives her, as a token of his love, a beautiful present - a fan. However, she is to find out that her love is not as secure as she once believed. Who is the strange Mrs Erlynne and what is her husband's involvement with her? Within the structured confines of London 'society', Oscar Wilde creates a witty cartoon of morality and double standards. In twenty-four hours the happiness of Lord and Lady Windermere teeters on the precipice of scandal and disaster. Coloured with rakish young fops, innocent daughters, scheming mothers and bumbling gentlemen, lady Windermere's Fan is Oscar Wilde's classic comedy of manners, hidden identities and mistaken understandings. Wilde’s upper class London of the Gay Nineties are transported to the Essex ex-pat paradise of Marbella. The new wealthy are the old rich. And when the aristocratic wife, old or new, hears that her husband has been unfaithful, there is nothing to choose between them.| 31 May 06 to 17 Jun 06 | Landor Theatre Inner London, Greater London Performance Details => Venue archive |
