![]() ![]() The knockabout games and up-front attitude mean not all of Wilde’s witticisms land as they would with more icy reserve. When she speaks, it is with a rasping authority. Played by Daniel Jacob, moonlighting from his job as drag queen Vinegar Strokes, she is so wrapped up in swathes of purple fabric that Phoebe Campbell’s Cecily can get nowhere near her face and has to make do with an air kiss. ![]() Only the imposing figure of Lady Bracknell can bring them to order. It is as if the tweed suits and unyielding dresses cannot quite restrain the naughty children wearing them. When the characters can’t get what they want, they tend to chase each other on and off the stage, as if they have slipped into a slapstick farce. In a production commissioned after he won the RTST Sir Peter Hall director award, Westley-Sanderson pays attention to the formality of Oscar Wilde’s genteel world of afternoon tea and cucumber sandwiches while giving it a playful kick. ![]()
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