Jewellery Quarter Festival 2019

A Wilde Life - How Oscar should be in the Pantheon of literary great like Shakespeare and Shaw

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The Importance of Being E(a)rnest- and Oscar Wilde as a driving force in the Fin de Siécle….

by michaelgriffith1 • May 11, 2019 • 1 Comment

This week we explored the world of Oscar Wilde, especially his trenchant, satiric, criticism of the Victorian Age. We had the great good fortune to watch David Suchet play the role of Lady Bracknell in this play. He transforms Lady Bracknell into the grotesque image of the upper middle class that Oscar Wilde was so intolerant of.

Please find here the audio for the lecture for Week 10 and link this to the slides that are posted into LEO- enjoy!

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David Suchet in the role of Lady Bracknell brings Oscar Wilde’s satire of the British upper classes into a powerful focus. She is so much of the age of surfaces that anything she says or does is a complete parody of who she might think she is.

Take a look at this interview with Suchet on his role in this http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/11690769/David-Suchet-interview-for-Lady-Bracknell-This-could-be-end-of-my-career.html

This play, while mocking deeply at the tribal customs of the late Victorians, has, at its heart, a wish to point the human race in the right direction: away from fraud, hypocrisy and such indecent preoccupation with material realities.

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