The Vaudeville Theatre is located at 404 Strand, London, WC2R 0NH. The closest Rail Station is Charing Cross.
The first theatre on this site was designed by C J Phipps and opened on 16th April, 1870. The theatre was afterwards rebuilt, to designs once more by C J Phipps, and reopened on 13th January, 1891.
This theatre bestowed the still surviving four-storey high frontage in Portland stone. The theatre then closed down again on 7th November, 1925 when the interior was completely restored to designs by Robert Atkins, the auditorium was changed from a horseshoe configuration to the current rectangle shape, reopening on 23rd February, 1926.
Currently showing is An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde: “Sooner or later, we shall all have to pay for what we do…No one should be entirely judged by their past.” Oscar Wilde’s brilliant An Ideal Husband is a tale of morality, blackmail and political corruptness.
Characterised by Wilde’s biting wit and sparkling sense of humour, the play is also a sympathetic portraiture of a marriage. Sir Robert Chiltern (Alexander Hanson), a highly eminent government minister, finds his reputation, career and marriage to the loving but noble-minded Lady Chiltern (Rachael Stirling) threatened by the arrival of the mysterious Mrs Cheveley (Samantha Bond).
Faced with a damning secret from his past, Sir Robert turns for help to his friend, Lord Goring (Elliot Cowan) a seemingly idle philanderer, who himself has a history with Mrs Cheveley. Can this dandyish philosopher save his friend from ruin? And will Lady Chiltern be able to reconcile the man she loves with her prospects of An Ideal Husband?
Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde (16th October 1854 – 30th November 1900) was an Irish writer, poet, and prominent aesthete who, after writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, became one of London’s most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams, plays and the tragedy of his imprisonment, followed by his early death.
At the crown of his fame and success, while his masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest, was still on stage in London, Wilde sued his lover’s father for libel. After a series of trials, Wilde was sentenced for gross indecency with other adult males and put behind bars for two years, put to hard labour. While in prison he composed De Profundis, a foresighted letter which discusses his spiritual journey through his trials, forming a dark and direct contrast to his former philosophy of pleasure. Upon his release he left at once for France, never to return to Ireland or Britain. There he wrote his concluding work, The Ballad of Reading Gaol, a long poem eternalising the harsh rhythms of prison life. He died impoverished in Paris at the age of forty-six.
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