Since then, he has been a paragon of virtue, admired by all and adored by his wife, Lady Chiltern (Penny Downie), who has, of course, been kept in the dark on his early indiscretion.Įnter the widowed Mrs. Sir Robert Chiltern (David Yelland), undersecretary for foreign affairs and a rising political star, launched his career with a small fortune won through an act that combined insider trading and political fraud. But Hall, whose company first presented the play in London four years ago, makes a strong argument that this is the more serious work, not to mention the more seriously entertaining. Though “An Ideal Husband” opened the same year as “The Importance of Being Earnest”– 1895 - it has always been overshadowed by What “An Ideal Husband” really is about, as this production makes exuberantly clear, is forgiveness, on the one hand, and, on the other, the more complicated permutations of morality, or of what Wilde certainly saw as the utter foolishness of moral absolutism.
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