Sold out for its full run, this production of Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband was staged in a historical Victorian mansion on Lake Michigan to create an immersive experience for the audience, who moved rooms between acts to heighten intimacy & immediacy, as well as engagement & empathy.
“…Robison relaxes the farce into drawing-room comedy and populates it with passably clever people who have much deeper concerns than the strategic deployment of bons mots. It's a warm and human world, quite unlike any I've seen in a Wilde staging…” - Chicago Reader
Director’s Note excerpt:
“I think what is often missed when thinking about An Ideal Husband is how deeply human the people and problems in the play actually are. In thinking about and performing Wilde, there is a tendency, I think, to focus on the surface – the wit, humor, and style - because it is such well-crafted, compelling surface. We can be so dazzled by the artifice that we fail to truly consider the humanity of his characters. But that is, after all, Wilde’s point.” - Holly Robison
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