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Dec 25, 2014 · "Lady Windermere's Fan" is based on Oscar Wilde's classic play set in 1890s London. Lady Windermere discovers that her husband could be having an affair with another woman. She confronts her husband but he instead invites the other woman, Mrs Erlynne, to his wife's birthday party.
- Lady Windermere's Fan (2018) - IMDb
Lady Windermere's Fan: Directed by Kathy Burke, Ross...
- Lady Windermere's Fan (2018) - IMDb
Unbeknownst to Windermere, the other woman is actually her long-lost mother, who must now save the crumbling marriage of her daughter and son-in-law. Oscar Wilde's classic play comes to life....
The notorious Mrs. Erlynne (Irene Rich), known for romantic scandals, returns to England and visits Lord Windermere (Bert Lytell) to confide that she is the mother of his wife, Lady Windermere ...
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By the summer of 1891 Wilde had already written three plays: Vera; or, The Nihilists and The Duchess of Padua had found little success, and Salome had yet to be staged. Unperturbed, he decided to write another play but turned from tragedy to comedy. He went to the Lake District in the north of England, where he stayed with a friend and later met Ro...
Lord Windermere – George AlexanderLord Darlington – Nutcombe GouldLord Augustus Lorton – H. H. VincentMr Cecil Graham – Ben WebsterAct I
The play opens in the morning room of the Windermeres' residence in London. It is tea time and Lady Windermere—who is preparing for her coming of age birthday ball that evening—has a visit from a friend, Lord Darlington. She shows off her new fan: a present from her husband. She explains to Lord Darlington that she is upset over the compliments he continues to pay to her, revealing that she has very particular views about what is acceptable in society, due in part to her somewhat Puritanupbri...
Act II
Act II opens in the Windermeres' drawing roomduring the birthday ball that evening. Various guests enter, and make small-talk. Lord Windermere enters and asks Lady Windermere to speak with him, but she brushes him off. A friend of Lord Windermere's, Lord Augustus Lorton ("Tuppy"), pulls him aside to inquire about Mrs Erlynne, with whom Tuppy is enamoured. Lord Windermere reveals that there is nothing untoward in his relationship with Mrs Erlynne, and that she will be attending the ball, which...
Act III
Lady Windermere is alone in Lord Darlington's rooms, unsure if she has made the right decision. Eventually she resolves to return to her husband, but then Mrs Erlynne appears. Despite Mrs Erlynne's honest attempts to persuade her to return home to her husband, Lady Windermere is convinced her appearance is part of some plot conceived by her and Lord Windermere. Mrs Erlynne finally breaks Lady Windermere's resistance by imploring her to return for the sake of her young child, but as they begin...
Premiere
The premiere at the St James's Theatrewas followed by a famous speech by Wilde. When Wilde answered the calls of "Author!" and appeared before the curtains after the third act, critics were more offended by the cigarette in his hand than his ironically egotistic speech: Mrs Erlynne was originated by Marion Terry, and Lady Windermere by Lily Hanbury, who was succeeded after a few performances by Winifred Emery. The play's Broadway première on 5 February 1893 at Palmer's Theatre was also the fi...
By showing in St. James's, Wilde was targeting a fashionable, upper-middle class audience and Wilde maps out the geography of their world, Grosvenor Square, Curzon Street, the park, with precision. Peter Raby has also highlighted Lady Windermere's Fanas a good example of Wilde's most successful dramatic technique: the juxtaposition of the comic and...
The play has been the subject of numerous film and television adaptations and a musical adaptation. Films include: 1. A 1916 British film Lady Windermere's Fan. 2. In 1924, Hong Shen's production of 少奶奶的扇子 (Shàonǎinai de shànzi) ("The Young Lady's Fan"). 3. In 1925 silent film, Lady Windermere's Fan, which stars Ronald Colman, May McAvoy, Bert Lyte...
Wilde, Oscar (1893). Lady Windermere's Fan (1st ed.). London: The Bodley Head.Wilde. Oscar. Lady Windermere’s Fan, Little Blue Book N8, 1921.Wilde, Oscar. Lady Windermere's Fan. published in The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays. London: Penguin, 1940. ISBN 0-14-048209-1.Wilde, Oscar. Lady Windermere's Fan. London: Nick Hern Books, 2005. ISBN 978-1-85459-771-7Sources 1. Ellmann, Richard (1988). Oscar Wilde. New York: Vintage Books. ISBN 978-0-394-75984-5. 2. Raby, Peter, ed. (1997). The Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde. London: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-47987-8.
Lady Windermere's Fan at Standard EbooksLady Windermere's Fan at Project GutenbergLady Windermere's Fan public domain audiobook at LibriVoxLady Windermere's Fan at the Internet Broadway DatabaseApr 9, 2018 · Lady Windermere's Fan: Directed by Kathy Burke, Ross MacGibbon. With Samantha Spiro, Kevin Bishop, Jennifer Saunders, Grace Molony. The day of Lady Windermere's birthday party, and all is perfectly in order.
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Starring Ronald Colman and May McAvoy, Lady Windermere’s Fan is a film of transcendent elegance, wit, and sophistication, all the things Hollywood tries to do and occasionally succeeds in doing.
Feb 9, 2018 · A new production of Oscar Wilde’s social comedy, Lady Windermere’s Fan, directed by award-winning writer, actor and director Kathy Burke, will be broadcast live to cinemas from the Vaudeville...
