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Literary and cultural icon, Oscar Wilde, was born of Irish intellectuals in the mid eighteen hundreds. Wilde was famous for his oddity and his wit, as well as for his manoeuvrings in the society of the time. However, it is for his written works, which crossed many genres, that he is lauded and loved by the literary minded of so many generations. Famous for the sardonic and absurd circumstances in which he was wont to place his literary characters, Wilde’s plays, in particular, were oeuvres in which the moralistic message was always cleverly obscured—rather like a fizzy tablet in a sweet drink, by a bubbly exterior of happenstance. The current version of An Ideal Husband, London, is merely the latest in a long tradition of successful runs of one of Wilde’s later and highly admired plays. The play had its first successful run at the Haymarket, otherwise known as the Theatre Royal Haymarket, or the Little Theatre, London’s third most elderly and still active theatre, as it dates back to the early seventeen hundreds. An Ideal Husband opened on January third in the lattermost years of the eighteen-hundreds. It continued to show another one-hundred and twenty-three more times. Like Wilde’s earlier endeavours, Ideal Husband explores the moral twists of its characters. Personal integrity, politics and blackmail boil at the centre of the plot, which hinges on what happens when a happily married government official must deal with a potential and unwanted accounting of offenses committed in his younger years. This latest incarnation of the play—Ideal Husband appeared in London in 1966, under the direction of Peter Hall, is revived this time by Lindsay Posner. This version of Ideal Husband, London, boasts a talented cast, which includes Alexander Hanson and his wife Samantha Bond, appearing for the first time together, as well as Rachael Stirling and Elliot Cowan, as principals. Ideal Husband, London, appears at the Vaudeville, London’s west end theatre, located at London’s centrally located borough of Westminster, on London’s historical Strand Street. Beginning the second Wednesday of November 2010, Ideal Husband, London, is slated to continue through to the last Saturday of February 2011. Evening performances are designated Monday through Saturday, with the single exception of Christmas, on which there will be no performances. Matinees performances will occur on Wednesdays and Saturdays up to and including Christmas Eve.
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