![]() La Boite will celebrate its centenary in 2025, as Australia’s oldest continuous theatre company. Now, La Boite Theatre is staging a remarkably free adaptation of An Ideal Husband. The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. But as Wilde observed in The Importance of Being Earnest: The ending veers on the saccharine, when Lady Chiltern proclaims she feels “love, and only love” for her ideal husband. It is a complex play, an odd mixture of sentimentality and satire, without the consistency of the far more polished The Importance of Being Earnest. ![]() The play was written while Wilde was besotted with Queensberry’s son, Bosie (Lord Alfred Douglas) and the very title is ironic: Wilde, it turned out, was far from “the ideal husband”. ![]() Less than two months later Lord Queenberry left his infamous card accusing Wilde of “posing as a sodomite”, which led to Wilde suing for criminal libel – and then being arrested and imprisoned. Review: An Ideal Husband, directed by Bridget BoyleĪn Ideal Husband was first performed in January 1895. ![]()
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