An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde (1969 TV) -- part 3/8

a fine production featuring charming performances by Margaret Leighton and Jeremy Brett.Margaret Leighton ... Mrs. Cheveley Keith Michell ... Sir Robert Chiltern Jeremy Brett ... Vicount Goring Dinah Sheridan ... Lady ChilternVincent Canby wrote (1996):The play is set in the familiar Wildean milieu of grand Belgravia houses where, toward the end of the London season, dowagers, dukes, dandies, unmarried daughters and adventuresses meet to sip tea, exchange gossip, flirt and, in this play, become not quite hopelessly embroiled in politics and blackmail. Among other things, "An Ideal Husband" is about money and the power it confers. It's also about a kind of frigid English rectitude, mostly public but sometimes private, that can be as immoral as insider trading or the theft of a diamond brooch, both of which are important in Wilde's marvelously convoluted narrative. Over the years critics have chided Wilde for using such melodramatic devices, commonplace in the popular theater of the day, as if a playwright of his talent should be above such tricks. Yet "An Ideal Husband" is deliriously funny in part because it is sending up these conventions even as it's using them with skill and relish. Here's a well-made play that satisfies for being so well made that one scarcely notices how subversive it really is. Lest we miss that point, the centerpiece of Mr. Hall's physical production is a giant reproduction of a burnished Victorian penny. Engraved on it: the left profile of the old Queen who dominated her age apparently by not seeing or being seen. At the beginning and end of each act, this Victoria descends in her majesty to stare off into the wings, oblivious, unloving and seemingly forever. What's happening on the stage would not amuse her.

Canal: Entertainment
Añadido: November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am
Autor: ShakespeareAndMore

Duración: 10:53
Puntuación: 5.00
Reproducciones: 6777

Etiquetas: Brett  Husband  Ideal  Jeremy  Leighton  Margaret  Oscar  Wilde  

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