An Ideal Husband at Wings Theater

Big Rodent's production of Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband updates the action from nineteenth-century London to 1960s. Other than allowing the audience to look up the super-short mod minis worn by some of the actors, we're not totally sure why.

But that's a minor quibble, considering how good the acting is, particularly Joe Mathers as gadabout Viscount Goring, Leigh Poulos, who plays Mabel, his ditsy love interest, and Sarah Krokey, the arrogant, naive Lady Chiltern whose marriage is tested when she learns the truth about her husband's past. The fast and witty dialogue --- "Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear. Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself." --- remains the same, as does the message: love between equals allows us to overcome the murky viciousness that marks most social discourse.

Tonight's the final performance. If you're interested, use the code BEERWIT to get half-off tickets.

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