Though centred around reputation, it is the intimate duologues that charged the stage.
“We are caught in the crossfire of an ethical explosion”Īn Ideal Husband is a play about public scandal, where politician Robert Chiltern must prevent his earnest - if morally intolerant - wife from discovering he has built a career from selling government secrets, a fact the serpentine Mrs Cheveley has discovered and intends to put to dangerous use by manipulating his position of power to endorse a clearly fraudulent scheme. Though off to a slightly jarring start, nailing the pacing was something the actors had to ease into, the first interactions feeling self-conscious in their performance - a self-consciousness that quickly fell away as the cast sank into their roles and the well-positioned couch that its aristocrats drape themselves across to conduct their illicit conversations. In a play that hinges on witty wordplay and irony-drenched barbs, the cast of An Ideal Husband has done well to keep the pace rapid and the audience hooked for almost two hours of epigrams, upper-class catfights, and morality battles, racing through dialogue that has been written to ensnare.
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